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

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.