A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

42 3 Phonology 3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 3.2.1 CC-cluster rules 3.2.1.1 Stem-final C plus stop-initial s ...

3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 43 regressive voicing assimilation plus other assimilations (producing gemina ...

44 3 Phonology the respective word-families (for feminine nouns, these are seen as such in the plurals). (31) Assimilations with ...

3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 45 (33) Rharous Cases of /jt/ tt gloss Sg PI a. 'wild onion' t-a-mzalaltat-t t ...

46 3 Phonology following obstruent by a short V in the imperative. This is the case with superheavy verb stems that have basic ( ...

3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 47 reasonable way to derive it by assimilation from /dz/, which would be perfe ...

48 3 Phonology C-initial perfectives, before which t- fails to appear, but these stems avoid 3MaSg i- (and often 1P1 n-) as well ...

3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 49 (36) Cases of Consonantal Metathesis a. hS Sh (S = a sonorant or fricative) ...

50 3 Phonology became yellow' (but variant waerar also recorded for K-d), abstractive t-se-rore (arguably t-3-rure) 'yellowness' ...

3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 51 'buy, sell' cited above, I have a hard time finding a single example (not a ...

52 3 Phonology vomit' (but dialectally n-bdss). If we choose Ca- as the basic representation, we must apply VV-Contraction to de ...

3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 53 deleted before the full vowel e, as we would expect. The Hortative suffix r ...

54 3 Phonology the point when Short-V Harmony applies. Therefore, VV-Contraction must exceptionally convert /i + as/ to as inste ...

3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 55 dialectally 1-bbaffae-t or 0-aebbuffae-t), 3FePl PerfP abbuffas-t-nast, but ...

56 3 Phonology /a-ae/ —» ae d. light V-final non-augment verbs: 2MaPl and 3MaPl (but not lSg or 2Sg) subject, and V-initial Part ...

3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 57 There are some additional cases where we can posit an underlying stem- fina ...

58 3 Phonology (40) Verb plus Clitic VV Outputs a. deletable stem-final V plus full V /A + e/, h + d e /A + i/, /i + i/ —> i ...

3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 59 preceding V to shift to i), or else they do have an initial V but undergo V ...

60 3 Phonology (41) VV-Contraction ("V" = any vowel) input output grammatical context noun + suffix a /V + ae/ —» α noun + MaPl ...

3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 61 lal has been previously shortened before a suffix). This would work for nea ...