A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

2 1 Introduction The term Tuareg (French touareg or touareg) is a Hassaniya Arabic rather than Berber term. It is the plural twa ...

1.2 Literature on non-Tamashek Tuareg 3 I will use the term Tamashek in this fashion, i.e. for the Malian varieties except for t ...

4 1 Introduction rectified in future editions are the absence of scientific identifications of flora- fauna species, and the omi ...

1.3 Historical background 5 rainfall) but could not support permanent settlements. During the most recent few centuries, the onl ...

6 1 Introduction in much of the zone (some reprisal killings, but mainly forcing Tuareg and Arab civilians into exile). In 1995 ...

1.5 Neighboring languages 7 all dialects, and further detail on dialectal stem morphology can be gleaned from it. The Tuareg wer ...

8 1 Introduction where Tuareg-Bella groups are found, they are often in contact with Arab groups, and both Arab and Tuareg-Bella ...

1.6 Fieldwork and other data 9 As noted above, around Menaka we get Tamajak instead of Tamashek proper. In that zone, straddling ...

10 I Introduction transcriptions and the tapes back into the field and prepared corrected versions of the transcriptions. An out ...

Chapter 2 Overview A sketch of major highlights of Tamashek grammar here will provide an overall summary of the morphosyntactic ...

12 2 Overview verb-subject sequence, but not to a verb-object sequence. For more on the role this plays in "case marking," see § ...

2.2 Nouns 13 Importantly, while the [X Y' ...] depencies in (8) require direct adjacency (except that they allow floating clitic ...

14 2 Overview after a vowel or after a stressed C-final syllable), and feminines add suffix -en or -ten, replacing FeSg -t. Exam ...

2.5 Verbs 15 indefinite determiner rather than as a true numeral. In (11), the lexical heads are 'man' (ll.a-b), 'place' (ll.c), ...

16 2 Overview c. long imperfective subsystem LoImpfP [long imperfective positive] LoImpfN [long imperfective negative] (after Ne ...

2.6 Simple main clauses 17 pronominal complement. A clitic boundary is represented as -\ instead of just the hyphen -, and inste ...

18 2 Overview Regardless of whether a subject NP is present, the pronominal category of the subject is expressed on the verb. Th ...

2.9 Relative clauses 19 analyse as a (minimal) demonstrative in apposition to the focalized constituent. This ά is treated as cl ...

20 2 Overview c. definite subject relative man [this-MaSg(-\clitics) 3MaSgS-eat.LoImpfP-Partpl.MaSg dogs] 'the man who eats dogs ...

2.12 Ablaut 21 Accentuation. In other words, to justify a lexical accent it is necessary to observe accent on the final or on th ...