A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

242 4 Nominal and pronominal morphology syllable to the left of the marked accent). The accent on 1 is difficult to hear and per ...

Chapter 5 Noun phrase structure A noun-phrase (NP) consists of a noun (as lexical head of the phrase) and, optionally, one or mo ...

244 5 Noun phrase structure b. 0-ogdaeh-\d3r-i t-e-basdde 3MaSgS-be.equal.Reslt-\with-1 Sg Fe-Sg-length 'He is as tall as I (am) ...

5.1 Nominal modifiers 245 (223) a. wser n-oleh d sddinaet Neg lPlS-be.like.PerfN Comit people w-1 η "0-T3rm-an Ma-Dem.Pl Poss Sg ...

246 5 Noun phrase structure '5' saemmos '6' sadis (saedis) ad sasmmos ad saemmos-aet '7' aessa '8' aettam '9' taezza ι ι '10' ms ...

5.1 Nominal modifiers 247 representation /sadis/ is possible, and is consistent with T-ka's harmonic tendencies. However, other ...

248 5 Noun phrase structure (227) Prenominal Numerals numeral masculine feminine Ί' ly-aen (n-) ly-aet [n- used before V-initial ...

5. 1 Nominal modifiers 249 b. iy-aen masjraed one-Ma conversation 'one conversation' c. ly-set ""t-äe-set-t one-Fe Fe-Sg-donkey- ...

250 5 Noun phrase structure 5.1.2.3 'One' versus 'other' MaSgly-sen and FeSg ly-ast Ί' have been given above. In true numeral se ...

5.1 Nominal modifiers 251 The similarity between plural ly-aed '(some) ones' and the stem yyaed- (arguably underlying /iysed-/) ...

252 5 Noun phrase structure b. masraw-aet ded-en ad saemmos-aet ten-Fe woman-FePl with five 'fifteen women' t-e-mede 'hundred' ( ...

5.7 Nominal modifiers 253 (237) Pronominalized Numerals with -e- (K-d, exhaustive list for 3MaPl) numeral 3MaPl '2' a-sansen-e-s ...

254 5 Noun phrase structure Example: osas-nastAadd s ly-ast "iy-aet 'they-Fe came one at a time'. 5.1.2.7 Ordinals For 'first', ...

1 Nominal modifiers 255 c. n-ajrdw addinaet [s t-ajiw-en fukk] lPlS-get.Reslt people [Instr Fe-direction-FePl all] 'We have go ...

256 5 Noun phrase structure ά-di t-attaer so LoImpf-look.for.LoImpfP [a lae-n] [Dem have.PerfP-3MaPlS [d [a lae-naet [and [Dem h ...

5.2 Possession and compounding 257 5.1.2.10 Tent sizes From a K-d speaker come the forms in (244) and (245). (244) a. i η saendt ...

258 5 Noun phrase structure (246) a. ae-kall [an 't-a-m-azzuq-q-nasnasr] Sg-place [Poss Fe-Sg-0-dwell.VblN-FeSg-lPlPoss] 'a plac ...

5.2 Possession and compounding 259 (247) daer t-eje [t-ά [n 'ae-taeram]] in Fe-direction [Fe-Dem.Sg [Poss Sg-west]] 'in the dire ...

260 5 Noun phrase structure gazelle', a-saerol-annet 'his/her young ram', and a-kasbor-annasm 'your-FeSg sparrow' (from a-lsemom ...

5.2 Possession and compounding 261 A handful of kin terms take a special set of pronominal possessive suffixes given in (251), b ...