[tied] Re: IE subjunctive

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:

> I guess come to think of it, maybe it _is_ *ne esti and maybe
> you CAN have a negative marked with the indicative. Aggravatingly,
> I can't find any direct text on the internet that says anything
> about conjugation in the "negative indicative" mood. Perhaps
> I've been confusing the injunctive with the plain negative
> as Miguel says.

As for the status of the *-i, it is of importance that the primary
marker is used in both positive and negative statements of the
present, and it is not used in any statements of the past, be they
positive or negative. This is a point in which all IE languages that
can show the difference concur.

That of course means that the hidden agenda of dismissing a 2sg
subjunctive in *-esi cannot be construed on this basis.

Jens