A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

Chapter 14 Coordination 14.1 NP coordination 14.1.1 'and' NPs are conjoined by the Comitative preposition d (ad) 'with'. As a tr ...

14.1 NP coordination 703 d. i-ndabw-\a-hi-\n 3MaSgS-reject.PerfP-\0-lSg-\Centrif, [naekk d ara-tasn] [daer nae-rojj] [lSg with c ...

704 14 Coordination purposes of hosting clitics (881.a-b). However, on occasion mer does host a clitic, as in (881.c), where mer ...

14.1 NP coordination 705 b. ba-\0-s-\ha-naeY be.lost.PerfP-\Dat-3Sg-\Dat-lPl hakkae-n i-lseqkaew-aen give.LoImpfP-3MaPlS Pl-garm ...

706 14 Coordination In disjunctions ('or'), left and right agreement is confined to the nearest coordinand (884). (884) a. 0-oka ...

14.2 Clausal coordination 707 14.2.2 Clausal 'or' and 'whether' The disjunctive coordinator mer can be used to link clauses. The ...

Chapter 15 Anaphora As noted in §13.8, there are no logophoric pronouns in Tamashek. In (887), the 3FeSg object clitic -\taet ma ...

15.2 Reciprocal 709 (889) 1-wast edi-nnet 3MaSgS-hit.PerfP dog-3SgPoss 'Hex hit hisx (own) dog.' or: 'Hex hit hisy/her (=someone ...

710 15 Anaphora (892) a. hak "iy-aen 1-nhaey each one-MaSg 3MaSgS-see.PerfP t-aess η n3-m-idi-nnet Fe-cow Poss Sg-Agent-accompan ...

Chapter 16 Text The following text was recorded from a T-ka speaker in 2002. It was transcribed from dictation, allowing the spe ...

712 16 Text [ad ""t-äe-lyat-t] [Comit Fe-Sg-child(Vlyd)-FeSg] [d a alae-naet ulli] [Comit Dem have.PerfP-3FePl goats] 'The forme ...

16 Text 713 d "a-m-idi-nnet Comit Sg-Agent-be.with-3SgPoss w-α 1-ril-aen Ma-Dem.Sg 3MaSgS-believe.PerfP-Partpl.MaSg waer-\t i-ll ...

714 16 Text 'He repeated his saying (=words) to him: "What I'm doing is informing [focus] you that they (=goats) are mine.'" ['r ...

16 Text 715 ed haeraet [an nt-3-daewal-en] because thing [Poss Fe-Pl-goat-FePl] t-i-\s i-ttaef e-jaedees-annet Fe-Dem.Pl-\Instr ...

716 16 Text [waerAt ahe-naet] nt-a-nfus-en, [NegA3MaSgO be.in.PerfN-3FePlS] Fe-PI-story-FePl 'That evening, when they came to hi ...

16 Text 717 (917) aehönas-n [daer 'ae-hasd], move.out.PerfP-3MaPlS [in Sg-night] 'They moved out at night.' [/cehonce-cen/ with ...

718 16 Text (922) i-ss-astaen-\t ae-naes-bahu 3MaSgS-Caus-ask-\3MaSgO Sg-Agent-lying d abba-nnet Comit father-3SgPoss 'The lying ...

16 Text 719 LoImpfP variant -t-aggät-, see (334.h) in §7.2.5.1, also §7.3.1.1 and §7.4.1.2] (926) 0-olass i-ss-sstasn-\t 3MaSgS- ...

720 16 Text [w-ά η ae-naes-bahu] [Ma-Dem.Sg Poss Sg-Agent-lying] 'That midget there went to the water, in order to pour it back ...

16 Text 721 [a-\s-\hi t-aqqar-sed am-an] [Dem-\Instr-\lSg(Dat) 2S-mix.ShImpf-2SgS water-MaPl] 'Well, he (=lying man) said to him ...