292 6 Prepositions
preposition with 3Sg pronominal complement. It also occurs in the clause-
initial conjunction ssmdAd ... 'after...' (§13.1.1.6).
There is no 'like' preposition. One way to express 'like X' is a relative
clause of the type 'what X does', as in (301.a). Another is to use the particle
sund 'like' (not a true preposition), as in (301.b)
(301) a. aknas-ahr-et
fight.Shlmpf-lSgS-Hort
[a w-a i-t-aejj "ae-masser]
[Dem Ma-Dem.Sg lSgS-LoImpf-do.LoImpfP Sg-Tuareg]
'let me fight [hortative] like a Tuareg' [Hm]
(lit. "Let me fight [what (=as) a Tuareg does]
b. ulli, sund a-wen-daer
goats, like Ma-Dist-Anaph
'Goats, (they are) like that.'