A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

6.5 Spatial prepositions 287

b. kam-ak aeyy-\fsella-m t-a-dazza

2FeSg-0 leave.Imprt-\on-2FeSg Fe-Sg-laughter

'You-Fe, cut out the laughing (on yourself)!'

c. naekk ssle-γ t-ae-n-hserak-k-annaem

lSg hear.PerfP-lSgS Fe-Sg-0-neighbor-FeSg-2FeSgPoss

t-abda [fael ara-taen]

3FeSg-be.separated.ResIt [on child-MaPl]

'Me, I heard that your female neighbor, she has gotten

divorced on account of the children.' [K]

6.5.6 'in front of (dat)

The preposition is dat before a noun, data- before pronominals (289).

(289) Pronominal Paradigm of dat 'in front of

person Sg PI

1 dat-i, dat-er data-naer

2Ma data-k data-wwsen

2Fe data-m datä-kmaet

3Ma data-s data-ssaen

3Fe

tl

data-snaet

There is a noun data 'front, forward part', often in the phrase as data 'to
the front, ahead, forward'.
An example of the preposition is (290).

(290) t-akka data-m

3FeSgS-go.PerfP in.front.of-2FeSg

'It (=God's creation, i.e. people) goes in front of you-FeSg.' [K]

6.5.7 'behind' (daraet, dara-)

Before a noun the form is daraet. The pronominal paradigm has dara- (292).