A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

62 3 Phonology depending on what other rules apply (gemination, syncope, accent shift). A-grm, on the other hand, has a-s-akni, ...

3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 63 4. Verbal Noun of prefixal derivative /a-m-aswi/ underlying /a-m-asw/ after ...

64 3 Phonology 3S3W 'drink!'. A larger set of -vPQu- stems end in stable CC clusters in the Sg Imprt and so do not undergo resyl ...

3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 65 verbs. Example: for the T-md informant, 'become long (or tall)' was recorde ...

66 3 Phonology (44) Final-CC Schwa-Insertion Word-finally (or before suffix or clitic beginning with a C), a sequence ...VPQ whe ...

3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 67 PI -i-). There are a small number of cases where a masculine C-initial stem ...

68 3 Phonology not epenthesis, since it applies even at the beginning of CV-initial stems that have no need to resyllabify; see ...

3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 69 d. first syllable of multisyllabic stem e. (sometimes) lSg subject suffix - ...

70 3 Phonology b. a-diiban a-faffaru a-jlwad a-düban 'a-faffaru 'marriage' 'scrubbing' 'a-jiwad 'fleeing' When the consonant(s) ...

3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 71 Thus aeqqim-3Y-\3dd Ί sat (=stayed) here'. Because γ is a BLC, it is often ...

72 3 Phonology the penultimate accent in lSg ad aewt-aer suggests that Default Accentuation precedes Syncope in this case (where ...

3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 73 emerging unitary morphophonological interpretation that differs significant ...

74 3 Phonology bisyllabic. However, I did record a syncopated suffixal PI t-i-bkun-en (alongside ablaut PI t-i-bakkan). In cases ...

3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 75 <L ...> melody), showing the same association of Syncope with a while ...

76 3 Phonology (52) Contexts for Syncope of Stem-Initial -CvC..., all heavy stems a. -vs-aCV... -> -vs-CV... causative verb ( ...

3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 77 To illustrate the morphologization of Syncope, note particularly the differ ...

78 3 Phonology In (55.a), note that the syncopated a leaves a trace behind, in that the /as/ of 3MaPl subject suffix -aen is rea ...

3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 79 3.2.7.2 Leftward L-Spreading In order to complete the analysis of syncopate ...

80 3 Phonology The suggested derivation of the PerfP stems is (59). This assumes a prior application of Melodic Association, whe ...

3.3 Accent 81 3.3 Accent 3.3.1 Word accent (Default Accentuation) In my normal transcriptions of word-forms, a phonetic accent m ...