7.3 Verb classes and irregular verbs 361warl-kall 'he doesn't spend the mid-day' and 3MaPl counterpart waer kalla-n.
The dialects with LoImpfP -CaPPa- have LoImpfN -CaPPi-, e.g. -kalli-.
There is no completely productive masculine VblN form for α/ι verbs. A
type e-PaeQQi, e.g. e-saelli 'hearing' for -vslu- 'hear', is common in eastern
dialects but quite rare in T-ka. I can cite T-md e-bassi for 'vomit', but MaPl
ebs-αη (unaccented) is the form in wider use. Many verbs use a feminine
nominal as a VblN. t-e-CaePPe varying lexically with t-e-CaePe (in either case
with PI t-i-CaPP) is fairly common, as in t-e-daeffe 'pouring' (PI t-i-daff) and
t-e-zaete 'weaving' (PI t-i-zatt), but there are also some minor variations on
this pattern, as in t-a-dazza, t-a-haela (PI t-i-hall), and t-a-jallaw-t. For 'go to'
the VblN is t-Ikaw-t.
There is one -vCu- verb, with just one stem C, that has a complete
inflected paradigm that belongs in the α/ι subclass (364).
(364) -vCu- Verb of of aJi Type (-vju- 'do')gloss PerfP Imprt LoImpfP'do' -aja- aej (/aeji/) -t-ajj-(-t-ajjA-)Other than lacking a medial cluster, this verb behaves exactly like e.g.
-vksu- 'eat' throughout the perfective and short imperfective systems. Since
the stem has only one C, the long imperfectives use the -t- prefix to achieve
the -PvQQ- shape from which the various long imperfective stems are
generated. In most derivatives, the j is geminated, e.g.agentive e-m-aejj 'doer',
so the difference between -vCCu- and -vCu- is neutralized. For more detail see
§7.3.2.14.
Defective -vlh> 'exist', -vhu- 'be in', and -vh> 'have' (§7.3.2.11-13),
which have perfective-system stems only, belong to the general class of light
V-final verbs. It is reasonable to think that they belong to the α/ι subclass, but
in the absence of imperfectives it is impossible to tell whether they are α/ι or
o/u verbs (see below for the latter). In Tawellemmett at least some of these
verbs have imperfective paradigms, and for 'be in' I did record Imprt Ihi and
LoImpfP -t-ihi- in A-grm dialect, showing that the paradigm of at least this
verb belongs rather with that of 'be born', which is quite isolated structurally
in most of Malian Tamashek (§7.3.2.17).u/u subclasses) 7.3.1.4 Light non-augment V-final -v(C)Cu- (α/u and
Schematic paradigms were given in (352), above. MAN stem paradigms of
specific verbs are given in (365) below. Here -vbdu- 'be separated' represents
the a/u subclass, while -vndu- 'be churned' illustrates the α/u subclass.