A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

Description

This is a comprehensive description of Tamashek Tuareg spoken in Mali. The varieties covered in this volume are those of Tamashek in the narrow sense, excluding Tawellemett but including the other Malian varieties (Goundam, Timbuktu, Gao, Ansongo, Kidal, and the Gourma area south of the Niger River including Gosi and the outskirts of Hombori). Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1.1 Tuareg and Berber linguistics 1.2 Literature on non-Tamashek Tuareg 1.3 Historical background 1.4 Malian Tamashek 1.5 Neighboring languages 1.6 Fieldwork and other data 1.7 Acknowledgements 2 Overview 2.1 Recurrent morphosyntactic patterns 2.2 Nouns 2.3 Prefix Reduction 2.4 Noun phrases 2.5 Verbs 2.6 Simple main clauses 2.7 Clitics 2.8 Focalized clauses 2.9 Relative clauses 2.10 Accent 2.11 Representation of stems 2.12 Ablaut 3 Phonology 3.1 Segments 3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules 3.3 Accent 3.4 Ablaut 3.5 Syntactically controlled phonological processes 4 Nominal and pronominal morphology 4.1 Noun morphology 4.2 Independent personal pronouns 4.3 Demonstratives 5 Noun phrase structure 5.1 Nominal modifiers 5.2 Possession and compounding 6 Prepositions 6.1 Inventory of true prepositions 6.2 Pronominal suffixes with prepositions 6.3 Dative (or Purposive) 6.4 Instrumental and Comitative 6.5 Spatial prepositions 6.6 Compound prepositions 6.7 Preposition-like particles 7 Verbal morphology 7.1 Augment verbs with -t- 7.2 Stem categories 7.3 Verb classes and irregular verbs 7.4 Pronominal subject paradigms 8 Verbal derivation 8.1 Causative (-s-, -s̩-, -š-, -z-, -ž-, -z̩-, -svw-) 8.2 Passive (-t-, -tt-, -tvw-) 8.3 Mediopassive (-m-, -n-, -nvy-) 8.4 Reciprocal -nvm-, -m-, -n- 8.5 Participles (subject relatives) 8.6 Verbal nouns 8.7 Adjectival nouns without derivational prefix 8.8 Agentives 8.9 Nonagentive nominals with -m- or -n- 8.10 Denominal agentives (-mæs-, -næs-, etc.) 8.11 Instrumental (and related) nominals with -s- or -s-vg- prefix 8.12 Other nominals 9 Verb phrases and other predications 9.1 Voice (valency) types of verbs 9.2 Copular predications (‘be’, ‘become’) 9.3 Locational and existential predications 9.4 Possessive predications 9.5 External negation and negative copular clauses 9.6 Preverbs 9.7 Verbs borrowed from French 10 Clitics 10.1 Sentential clitics 10.2 Directional clitics 10.3 Pronominal clitics 10.4 Ordering of clitics 11 Dicourse-functional particles and topicalization 11.1 Topicalization 11.2 Emphatics 11.3 Other discourse particles 12 Extraction 12.1 Relativization 12.2 Focalization 12.3 Interrogatives 13 Clausal subordination 13.1 Adverbial clauses 13.2 Purposive and causal clauses 13.3 Jussive and subjunctive clauses (à.\d) 13.4 Add-on small clauses 13.5 Verbs with verbal noun complements 13.6 Verbs and particles with finite complements 13.7 Factive ‘that’ complements (s, à-\s) 13.8 Reported speech and thought 13.9 Conditionals 13.10 Possessive ̩ә̀n plus ‘that’ complement 14 Coordination 14.1 NP coordination 14.2 Clausal coordination 15 Anaphora 15.1 Reflexive 15.2 Reciprocal 16 Text Indices References