A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

22 2 Overview verbs), consisting of L (low) and Η (components). The melody is often combined with one or more local ablaut forma ...

Chapter 3 Phonology 3.1 Segments 3.1.1 Consonants The positional series in the columns in (19) are listed in the key below the t ...

24 3 Phonology original h has occurred north of the border. If so, the K-f pronunciation hy may represent a transition between s ...

3.1 Segments 25 3.1.1.2 Marginal nasals (η n) The nasals ή and η occur in a handful of stems. A clear n was recorded in naemasku ...

26 3 Phonology formation from geminated qq may be involved. An example of internal back- formation is the verb 'sit' (§7.3.2.9), ...

3.1 Segments 27 Because of the variation between [d:] and [t:] as geminated counterpart of d, we must accept that d and t are pa ...

28 3 Phonology also recorded Vsjr (in variation with Vsjr), perhaps a sporadic recent dissimilation of *s to the following affri ...

] Segments 29 alternation for Kal Ansar, i.e. Sg ezz but PI es-αη with ungeminated s (and full α suggesting contraction from / ...

30 3 Phonology The most systematic retention of gg as geminated version of w is in verbal nouns. The -owasC- verbs just mentione ...

3.1 Segments 31 (23) Geminated Counterpart of d ddI I III a) inflectable verb stems have medial d and dd. b) inflectable verb st ...

32 3 Phonology There are some (sub-)dialectal variants such as e-kew and e-ke for 'root', and afrew versus afaerr 'wing', where ...

3.1 Segments 33 early (perhaps lexical) cycle, while possessor suffixes are added at a later (perhaps postlexical) cycle. 3.1.1. ...

34 3 Phonology 3.1.2 Vowels 3.1.2.1 Full and short vowels The vowel phonemes are the short V's in (26) and the full V's in (27). ...

3.1 Segments 35 short a, I am able to add accent markings (as, ab, etc.), which are generally not used by the other authors. 3.1 ...

36 3 Phonology The short-V merger is potentially momentous, given the importance of the a versus ae opposition in verbal ablaut. ...

3.1 Segments 37 but feminine t-a-baembaera-t-t 'Bambara woman' (or 'Bambara language'). The Default Accentuation rule normally d ...

38 3 Phonology following V-initial subject suffix to form 3, in effect transferring its [+high] feature to the surviving short V ...

3.1 Segments 39 (29) Stem-Final i/A-Deletion (Verbs) Stem-final underspecified vowels III (high) and /A/ (low) are deleted when ...

40 3 Phonology frequently get -taen, as in Sg ά-dwanni 'talk (noun)', PI i-dwanni-tasn. If the noun ends in /ay/ or /aw/, we get ...

3.1 Segments 41 realization of /a/, harmonic to i, before a BLC, but for other dialects it is a true initial ze). The Shlmpf is ...