A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

662 12 Extraction processes between "[Neg [get up]]" and "[be sick]." In the first of these, only the VblN 'getting up' is extra ...

Chapter 13 Clausal subordination 13.1 Adverbial clauses 13.1.1 Temporal adverbial clauses 13.1.1.1 Finite 'when ...' clauses (a- ...

664 13 Clausal subordination More elaborate constructions with a "real" head noun like aelwasqq '(point in) time' are also commo ...

13.1 Adverbial clauses 665 13.1.1.2 Locative preposition plus VblN for 'when ...' Since VblN's are so productive in Tamashek, it ...

666 13 Clausal subordination c. [a i-kkaes] i-jraw-\t [Dem 3MaSgS-take.out.Reslt] 3MaSgS-get.Reslt-\3MaSgO hasraet, u-mar i-bdad ...

13.1 Adverbial clauses 667 My T-ka informant added har w-ά 'until this' = 'still' (i.e. 'while still...') before the and! clause ...

668 13 Clausal subordination (798) dat ^ae-wet η "'a-janna in.front.of Sg-hit.VblN Poss Sg-rain 'before the striking of the rain ...

13.1 Adverbial clauses 669 e. i-twarAt [e Va-jras-t 3MaSgS-store.Reslt-\3MaSgO [Dat Fe-Sg-winter-Fe] [har arsw-naet ulli] [until ...

670 13 Clausal subordination 13.1.2 Spatial adverbial clauses ('where ...') Spatial adverbial clauses ('where ...') are definite ...

13.2 Purposive and causal clauses 671 13.2 Purposive and causal clauses 13.2.1 Purposives ('in order that...') (y aAd, aAd, y) T ...

672 13 Clausal subordination The danger of confusing Future ad with the unmarked Dem ά of a relative clause is especially great ...

13.2 Purposive and causal clauses 673 13.2.2 Causal ('because') clauses (fsel, a-\s, ed) A number of variants involving cliticis ...

674 13 Clausal subordination denoting a generalized, not individual-specific, causality. For other uses of ed and comments about ...

13.3 Jussive and "subjunctive" clauses 675 c. anne-vAa-s [a-\d i-baddaed] say.PerfP-lSgS-\Dat-3Sg [DemAComit 3MaSgS-go.LoImpfP] ...

676 13 Clausal subordination 13.3.1 'want' (-vrhi>) a-\d is also found with -vrhu- 'want'. Below are examples with positive ( ...

13.3 Jussive and "subjunctive" clauses 677 c. [aegg 'ae-jasma] waer 0-seddobas-t [a-\d [son Sg-bush] Neg 3MaSgS-be.able.PerfN [D ...

678 13 Clausal subordination entity obligated is the direct object of this verb, and reappears in the complement clause. An alte ...

13.3 Jussive and "subjunctive" clauses 679 'be incumbent on'. The person is direct object, while the action (often a VblN) is su ...

680 13 Clausal subordination (826) a. 0 -ses-m2etaer-\a-hi 3MaSgS-Caus-advise.PerfP-\0- 1 Sg [d a-\d aekk-aer baemako] [Comit De ...

13.4 Add-on small clauses 681 b. a-\dd asa-naet FutACentrip arrive.ShImpf-3FePlS [aja-naet ae-safu] [do.ShImpf-3FePl Sg-greeting ...