From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 31381
Date: 2004-03-07
>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:Perhaps he meant /me: eset(i)/?
>
>> [...] From my understanding *-i is the "indicative", a marker
>> that expresses true facts, which is why we don't see this
>> marker in the negative (never **/ne est-i/, just */ne est/).
>
>That is not so. The negative form of the present indicative is
>simply the present indicative (with a negative particle) which ends
>in *-ti in the 3sg.