A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

13.9 Conditionals 699

c. enaekk war aswe-r l-safr-an,

if Neg drink.PerfP-lSgS Pl-medication-MaPl,

aemmaet-ser

die.Shlmpf-lSgS

'If I hadn't drunk (=taken) the medicines, I'd have died.'

d. enaekk-bd war i-qqel,

ifACentrip Neg 3MaSgS-retum.PerfN

sejl-agY smmaY-aerAa-s

go.Shlmpf- 1 SgS look.for.Shlmpf-l SgS-\Dat-3Sg

'If he hadn't come back, I'd have gone and looked for him.'

e.. airnar sssan-aer

if know.Reslt-lSgS

[s a-\d i-wst "a-janna],

[that DemAComit 3MaSgS-hit.ShImpf Sg-rain]

away-asrAad t-ele

bring.Shlmpf-lSgSACentrip Fr-umbrella

'If I had known that the rain would strike (=that it was going

to rain), I would have brought an umbrella.' [K-d]

f. enaekk ale-γ e-hasre,

if have.Resit-lSgS Sg-wealth,

t-asa-dAa-hi

2S-arrive.ShImpf-2SgSAO-lSg

waedder ammak-in d-a-daer

Neg manner-my Dem-Dem-Emph

'If I had wealth (=were wealthy), you'd have come to me

(finding that) my manner (=behavior) was not like this.'

For A-grm, I recorded consequents with Future ad. The A-grm counterpart

of the consequent in (871.a) was therefore ..., ad azgar-ser.

In counterfactuals, the verb of the antecedent clause is again from the

perfective system (PerfP or Resit). The consequent verb (if positive) is

generally Shlmpf, but it can appear as PerfP (872.a) when it is bound to a past

time interval.

When the counterfactual consequent is negative, it occurs in the LoImpfN

or Prohib stem (my examples of this are from Κ and K-d).