420 7 Verbal morphology
In the inflectable Shlmpf, variants with both final /Al and final Iii were
recorded. There is no audible difference in the absence of a subject suffix,
since both of these final segments are deleted. However, with 3MaPl subject
suffix -asn, for T-ka I recorded both ad aeqqamae-n 'they-Ma will sit' and ad
aeqqama-n, and the latter occurred in other dialects (Gao Im R T-ka). In
asqqama-n, hi has contracted with sufix-initial /ae/ to produce a. Likewise,
with medial y, I recorded ad aeqqayma-n 'they-Ma will sit' in some Gao-area
dialects. The T-ka variant /-aeqqamA-/ has stem-wide melody, while
/-aeqqami-/ has the melody also found in short imperfectives of some
other V-final verbs. Note that the final V "counts" for purposes of Default
Accentuation, hence e.g. (ad) sqqamas-n 'they-Ma will sit' showing that the
antepenult of pre-contraction /-asqqamA-aen/ is targeted by Default
Accentuation.
For (ungeminated) q varying with r, see §3.1.1.3.
The causative 'make sit' has the stems shown in (422).
(422) Causative 'make sit'
T-ka A-grm
both dialects
PerfP -aes-vaeyma- -s-seqqaeyma-
Imprt s-aqqim
LoImpfP -s-arasyma- -s-avama-
VblN a-s-aqqlm
The T-ka causatives are clearly based on -vvymu- (with /ay/
indistinguishable from i), while the A-grm forms show both -Time- and
-Yvymix See also 'testify' just below.
7.3.2.10 'testify' (jjyh, tfh)
This verb is very similar to 'sit' (just above), though the two diverge in form
somewhat. The forms for dialects excluding A-grm are given in (423).
(423) 'testify'
a. perfective system (i and ay indistinguishable)
PerfP -ajjiha-, ajjayha-
Reslt -ajjiha-, -ajjsyha-
PerfN -ajjiha-, ajjayha-
