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Re: Uralic Negative Verbs (was RE: "to be" and not to be...)

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 19:51
John Vertical wrote:

> > Better yet, it doesn't even exist. (I think a few of the Sami > languages at least have theoretical forms for it, but I'm hard-pressed > to think of any actual usage for an 1SG imperative.) >
Hmm. "Let me die now [because I'm so happy]" die-1SG.IMP now Of course, in English, that's gramatically a 2nd person imperative+infinitive construction, but semantically, I would say, is a first person imperative.