A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

682 13 Clausal subordination b. qjiid t-aehonas-d t-arhe-d if 2S-move.out.Reslt-2SgS 2S-want.Reslt-2SgS a-\d t-akka-d se-salwa D ...

13.5 Verbs with verbal noun complements 683 A juxtaposed ("conjoined") imperative likewise may take imperative form (831). For t ...

684 13 Clausal subordination 13.5.1 'prevent' (-vkkvs-) In the construction glossable 'X prevent [Y do...]', Tamashek expresses ...

13.5 Verbs with verbal noun complements 685 The transitive verb 'begin' is -s-vnti>, (Imprt s-aent, PerfP -sss-anta-). It can ...

686 13 Clausal subordination b. ae-kall dar 0-aemos [aj-kail Adas γ waer Sg-land also 3MaSgS-be.Reslt [Sg-land-\in Neg ksnna-n a ...

13.6 Verbs and particles with finite complements 687 13.6 Verbs and particles with finite complements In the cases documented in ...

688 13 Clausal subordination 13.6.4 'spend the day doing' (-huji>) Perseverance in an activity over time can be expressed usi ...

13.6 Verbs and particles with finite complements 689 The particle saernas can be used clause- (or phrase-)initially in the sense ...

690 13 Clausal subordination has been trimmed slightely over time as iket comes to function as a kind of clause-initial particle ...

13.6 Verbs and particles with finite complements 691 Yet another construction is that beginning with invariant negated war i-lke ...

692 13 Clausal subordination exists', but in this construction this phrase is followed by a 'that' clause (here with s 'that'). ...

13.7 Factive 'that' complements 693 (858) Factive a-\s a. orde-γ [a-\s think.Reslt-lSgS [Dem-\Instr wasr mad-\d 0-as] Neg FutACe ...

694 13 Clausal subordination a-w-ά n-ajraeh Dem-Ma-Dem.Sg lPlS-understand.Reslt [s anta a-s-alhi yds] [that 3Sg Sg-Caus-stuff on ...

13.8 Reported speech and thought 695 In (860.a), the first s seems to function as an adverbial complementizer, which itself take ...

696 13 Clausal subordination (864) Ί-kkuddael [a-\s 3MaSgS-deny.PerfP [Dem-Unstr anta ά 0-okar-aen] 3Sg Foe 3MaSgS-steal.Reslt-P ...

13.9 Conditionals 697 In (967), both antecedent and consequent are long imperfectives (LoImpfP and LoImpfN, respectively), since ...

698 13 Clausal subordination (870) a. a-\fael i-jd "'ae-kaesa, if 3MaSgS-be.done.Reslt Sg-wet.season, ad-\ad t-as t-äe-das-t Fut ...

13.9 Conditionals 699 c. enaekk war aswe-r l-safr-an, if Neg drink.PerfP-lSgS Pl-medication-MaPl, aemmaet-ser die.Shlmpf-lSgS 'I ...

700 13 Clausal subordination (872) a. anndr sssdn-aer if know.Reslt-lSgS [s a-\d i-wat ""a-janna], [that Dem-\Comit 3MaSgS-hit.S ...

13.10 Possessive η plus 'that' complement 701 (874) i-ha misi 3MaSgS-be.in.Reslt risk [n [a-\s n-akka baemaeko]] [Poss [Dem-Mnst ...