A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

142 3 Phonology (su), but in R it remains unrounded in the 3MaPl Shlmpf (si). In -muttvsu-, the lexical u is separated from the ...

3.4 Ablaut 143 and Medial V-Shortening. The best evidence for this is causative -s-undu- 'churn', with the u in the hypothesized ...

144 3 Phonology the two full V's are jointly subject to a stem-level melody <H> or <L>, the first V is shortened (/u ...

3.4 Ablaut 145 adjectival verb whose imperfectives are based on -istak-, e.g. Imprt Istak (cf. PerfP -astik-). Likewise, causati ...

146 3 Phonology T-ka nearly always has ο instead of e, as in PerfP -aess-oraed- 'bathe' (versus A-grm -sss-erasd-, Κ and R -sess ...

3.5 Syntactically controlled phonological processes 147 work, at least if "prosodic" phrases are defined in a manner relevant to ...

148 3 Phonology d. FePl t-i- nt-9- before CC plus {a i u} ""t-3- (dialectally ^-0-) before a single C plus {a i u} [for the dial ...

3.5 Syntactically controlled phonological processes 149 T-md, R, K, and some Gao-area dialects, we get "0- in the MaPl (for i-) ...

150 3 Phonology For those nouns that undergo no audible change in Prefix Reduction contexts (i.e. those with no vocalic prefix a ...

3.5 Syntactically controlled phonological processes 151 stem. The use of a stripped-down, minimal verb form after the Future par ...

152 3 Phonology expressed as either wser t-ahlek (with PerfN stem, note the e) or as wasr haellaek (with the Prohib). For more o ...

3.5 Syntactically controlled phonological processes 153 telling demonstration of the interlacing of "syntax" and "phonology" in ...

154 3 Phonology In (131), χ-pcl Erasure is observed in a prepositional relative (compare LoImpfP -tdtt 'eat'). Here the initial ...

3.5 Syntactically controlled phonological processes 155 presence of a pronominal-subject prefix (separating the accented demonst ...

156 3 Phonology 3.5.3.3 Lexical Accent Erasure andχ-Erasure Consider now the (definite) object relatives in (134). (134) a. w-ά ...

3.5 Syntactically controlled phonological processes 157 The reason why the 3FeSg subject forms are singled out for this special ...

158 3 Phonology /e-m-aeqrV/ (where V represents either hi or IAJ) and VblN /a-fsyki/. This underlying penultimate accent is cons ...

3.5 Syntactically controlled phonological processes 159 b. Syncope (numerous examples), masculine eras ers-αη 'sharp pain' e-bae ...

160 3 Phonology connection between loss (or desyllabification) of a stem V and χ-Erasure. In addition, we would have to recogniz ...

Chapter 4 Nominal and pronominal morphology 4.1 Noun morphology 4.1.1 Gender and number categories 4.1.1.1 Gender categories Mas ...