A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

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242 4 Nominal and pronominal morphology

syllable to the left of the marked accent). The accent on 1 is difficult to hear
and perhaps suppressed when the preceding syllable is accented. The particles
are shown in (218).

(218) Demonstrative Postnominal Particles


category form

Proximate 1 (dialectal PI In for T-md)
Near-Distant di
Recent Anaphoric annin = andin (cf. and! 'before')
Distant en

Masculine examples of i are Sg ά-mnas i 'this male camel' and its PI
ί-mnas i (T-md ί-mnas in). Feminine examples are Sg t-aellaem-t ί 'this
female camel' (heard as t-aellaem-t i with suppressed accent) and its PI
t-zelm-en I (T-md in). An example of di is d-mnss di 'that camel (near you)'.
An example of (mostly adverbial) andin, which generally denotes a prior time
interval, is t-ene sndin 'that prior year' (i.e. 'a few years ago'). Examples of
en are a-mnas en 'that camel (distant)' and its PI i-mnas en.
Compare these morphemes with directional clitics used with verbs:
Centripetal -\add (and variants), Centrifugal -Yin.
Anaphoric -daer can be added to the forms in (218), as in i-daer, di-dasr,
en-dasY.
In (219), the demonstrative follows a noun with suffixed pronominal
possessor.


(219) i-laemaw-aen-naem di-daev
Pl-skin-MaPl-2FeSgPoss NearDist-Anaph
'those hides of yours-FeSg' [K]

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