A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

8.5 Participles (subject relatives) 497

8.5.6.2 Participles with Future mär (ore)

Another preverbal particle is the Future, which appears as ad (dialectally ar) in
positive utterances. The Future Negative is expressed in T-ka by u-mar
(presumably fused from *wasr mar), in R and some other dialects by w$r
followed by Future allomorph e. In effect, ad is confined to clause-initial
position and is replaced by mar or e when non-initial
For T-ka, the combinations of (noninitial) Future particle mar with
participial endings are given in (522).

(522) Participial Forms of Future mar (T-ka)

MaSg FeSg PI

mar-aen mar-aet mar-aen

Corresponding to T-ka mar-aen, I have recorded mare-n for T-md, both

made-n and mar-n for A-grm, and man-n (evidently assimilated from

*mar-n) for some Gao-area dialects.

Examples of the definite participial construction are in (523).

(523) Definite Future Participles (T-ka)

a. w-α mar-aen

Ma-Dem.Sg Fut-Partpl.MaSg

'he who will drink'

1-S3W

3MaSgS-drink.ShImpf

t-ά mar-aet

Fe-Dem.Sg Fut-Partpl.FeSg

'she who will drink'

t-3S3W

3FeSgS-drink.ShImpf

c.

d.

w-i mar-aen 3S3W

Ma-Dem.Pl Fut-Partpl.MaSg

'they-Ma who will drink'

t-i mar-sen

Fe-Dem.Pl Fut-Partpl.MaSg

'they-Fe who will drink'

drink.Shlmpf

3S3W

drink.Shlmpf

Again there is no subject suffix on the inflected verb in the plural-subject

cases (523c-d).

When both Neg and Fut particles are present (future negative), the Neg

morpheme comes first (as usual). In T-ka, where Neg and Fut combine into the

fused form ü-mar, the participial endings are added to this. Hence MaSg and

PI u-mar-aen but 3FeSg ü-mar-aet. As in the preceding negative and future