A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

82 3 Phonology I use ν (double grave accent) in two situations. First, certain suffixes and clitics require that the default acc ...

3.3 Accent 83 The accent of trisyllabic stems may fall on any of the three syllables. Schematically, we have the three types CvC ...

84 3 Phonology (62) Accent Types a. trisyllabic or longer lexically unaccented penultimate accent final accent lexical resyllabi ...

3.3 Accent 85 of the antepenult. It is probably best to treat this as a morphophonological fact, simply stipulating that the suf ...

86 3 Phonology in the same manner as t-a-baembsra-t-t. Nouns like kaeya with final accent are mainly loanwords and their feminin ...

3.3 Accent 87 2MaPl Imperative -aet (63.e) requires accent on the preceding syllable. Example: aras 'repay!' (Sg imperative, def ...

88 3 Phonology is easier to see in connection with VV-Contraction (§3.3.1.3, below). This is because (unsuffixed) Shlmpf -aeks f ...

3.3 Accent 89 V is morphologically specialized, so is the interaction between VV-Contraction and Default Accentuation. When the ...

90 3 Phonology now consider how these stems appear when followed by an underlying V-initial subject suffix. In these unaugmented ...

3.3 Accent 91 (66) Perfective Negative of 'stretch on tiptoes' a. 3MaSg waer 0-ojja b. VV-Contraction precedes Default Accentuat ...

92 3 Phonology lSg ass-ijj-aev and 3MaPl sss-ijjae-n. In all of these heavy V-final stems, VV-Contraction converts /a-ae/ to ae ...

3.3 Accent 93 derivations involves intricate rule sequencing, with the relative order of Default Accentuation and VV-Contraction ...

94 3 Phonology accent on 'drink!' (and 'drinker'), but with other stems they show at best sporadic final accentuation. Such case ...

3.3 Accent 95 For example, laz 'hunger, famine' is unaccented, so accent appears on a preceding preposition, as in dsev laz 'in ...

96 3 Phonology preverb + verb c. ad 0-asks Fut 3MaSgS-eat.ShImpf 'He will eat.' d. war i-jla Neg 3MaSgS-go.PerfP 'He didn't go.' ...

3.3 Accent 97 [iti'fae'rjajiin] with adjacent-syllable accents. The "regular" pattern of secondary accents is therefore most eas ...

98 3 Phonology is the appearance of a final-syllable accent on the first component of a word-pair. The most consistent examples ...

3.4 Ablaut 99 sections on nominal and verbal morphology. Here we describe some basics of Tamashek ablaut. 3.4.1 Stem shapes and ...

100 3 Phonology melody, rather than from the lexical representation of the stem. In this analysis, therefore, the basic represen ...

3.4 Ablaut 101 the inflectable short imperfectives, but not in the Imprt. In most cases the extra short V is accompanied by eith ...