privative a with finite verb

[George Hart]

It may be worth remarking that Dravidian languages (like many other  
families) puts the negative into the verb.  It's also notable that  
Germanic can put the alpha-privative onto the beginning of the verb  
(undo).  I don't know enough about IE to say whether the Sanskrit  
phenomenon could be a reflection of either one of these things.   
George Hart

On Sep 26, 2007, at 4:59 AM, Dominic Goodall wrote:

> Paul Dundas has written to me with the following message, which he  
> tried to send, but which apparently bounced.
>
> From: pdundas <P.Dundas at ed.ac.uk>
> Date: 26 September 2007 10:59:43 BDT
> To: Indology <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: privative a with finite verb
>
> Keith, A History of Sanskrit Literature p. 10, interprets apacasi  
> as humorous, 'you're no cook'.
>
>
> Paul Dundas
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