A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

462 8 Verbal derivation 8.1.9 Causatives of prefixally derived verbs The combinations of Caus -s- with a following derivational ...

8.1 Causative 463 The cases in (473) appear to be simple cases of a causative of mediopassive. Note that the core stems are ligh ...

464 8 Verbal derivation c. -s-vm-ulvy- 'cut into pieces' (-ulvy- 'cut') PerfP -aes-m-alasy- Imprt s-amm-iby LoImpfP -s-am-alay- ...

8.1 Causative 465 While I know of no true causative-causative other than these purely morphological double causatives, there are ...

466 8 Verbal derivation arrested', which is morphologically the passive of -vrmvs- 'receive, take'. The causative is therefore - ...

8.2 Passive 467 translate English passives (Ί got bitten'). For many transitive verbs, no prefixal passive could be elicited. Fo ...

468 S Verbal derivation Other passives similar to 'be taken' in (478), in the Imprt, are t-aejrasw 'be found' and t-aegkasd 'be ...

8.2 Passive 469 c. long imperfective system LoImpfP -t-ltw-anni- -t-ltw-adid- -t-"itw-itis- LoImpfN -t-atw-anni -t-atw-adid- -t- ...

470 8 Verbal derivation (480) Variant A-grm Long Imperfectives of TW-Passives 'be said' 'be bitten' long imperfective system LoI ...

8.3 Mediopassive 471 b. passive-mediopassive (rare) -tvw-vm-vksu-'be eaten' LoImpfP VblN PerfP Imprt -aetw-sem-asksa- taw-sm-aks ...

472 5 Verbal derivation stem (with present or past time reference), while the transitive use is often expressed in the PerfP or ...

8.3 Mediopassive Al 3 We get exceptional -η- for expected -m- in a handful of frozen and semantically specialized "mediopassive" ...

474 8 Verbal derivation The inflection of mediopassives of input stems beginning and/or ending in a full vowel is illustrated in ...

8.3 Mediopassive 475 medial i variant triggers a shift to melody, as often in Tamashek verbal ablaut. I recorded the PerfP only ...

476 8 Verbal derivation d. nominalizations VblN α-m-aks a-m-asaww (Pll-m-asw-an) (cf. Agentive e-m-aeks 'eater', e-m-aesaeww 'dr ...

8.4 Reciprocal All with the same verb and have different senses. For -kvykvy- 'shake (off)', we get the forms in (488), cited in ...

478 8 Verbal derivation (490) Reciprocal Paradigms From -v(C)Ci> Inputs -vPQu- 'give to e. other' -n-vkfb- a. perfective syst ...

8.4 Reciprocal 479 a-nm-ijay 'tie each other' -uCuC- a-nm-'iha^ 'approach each other' It a-nm-iw3Y 'block each other' II a-nm-iw ...

480 8 Verbal derivation b. -m- a-m-rattas a-m-gaggar 'cut each other' 'insult each other' -CvC(C)vC- -CvCCvC- c. -nm- a-nm-alarr ...

8.5 Participles (subject relatives) 481 (495) -m-vs-uku- 'spread' a. perfective system PerfP -sm-s-aka- Reslt -asm-s-aka- PerfN ...