A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

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498 8 Verbal derivation

cases, the inflected verb may take a 3MaSg or 3FeSg prefix but takes no affix

for plural subject.

(524) Definite Future Negative Participles (T-ka)

a. w-α ü-mar-aen 0-as

Ma-Dem.Sg Neg-Fut-Partpl.MaSg 3MaSgS-butcher.ShImpf

'he who will not butcher'

b. t-α ü-mar-aet t-as

Fe-Dem.Sg Neg-Fut-Partpl.FeSg 3FeSgS-butcher.ShImpf

'she who will not butcher'

c. w-i ü-mar-aen as

Ma-Dem.Pl Neg-Fut-Partpl.Pl butcher.Shlmpf

'they-MaPl who will not butcher'

d. naekk [i ü-mar-aen i-jal]

lSg [Dem Neg-Fut-Partpl.MaSg 3MaSgS-go.ShImpf]

Ί-Ma who will go.'

e. naekk [i ü-mar-aet t-ajal]

lSg [Dem Neg-Fut-Partpl.FeSg 3FeSgS-go.ShImpf]

Ί-Fe who will go.'

I have recorded dramatically different constructions for these future and

future negative participials for R and K. Here the noninitial Future particle is e

(allomorph he after a V-final demonstrative), and it patterns quite differently

from T-ka mar. The Participle ending is attached to the following (Shlmpf)

verb, not to the preverbal particle. In this R and Κ construction, clitics can

intervene between Neg waer and Future e, while the fused T-ka Fut Neg

complex ü-mar allows no intervening material. Examples are in (525).

(525) Definite Future Participles (R and K)

a. w-α he aksa-n

Ma-Dem.Sg Fut eat.Shlmpf-Partpl.MaSg

'he who will eat' [R] (/he a/ contracts to [he^1 ])

b. t-α he t-sksa-t

Fe-Dem.Sg Fut eat.Shlmpf-Partpl.FeSg

'she who will eat' [R]
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