A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

Jeffrey Heath

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A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

Jeffrey Heath

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2005

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Volume 35 | Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]

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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).

Author / Editor information

Jeffrey Heath is Professor of Linguistics and Professor of Near Eastern Studies in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

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I-XVIII Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	I
1 Introduction
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
2 Overview
Overview Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
3 Phonology.
3.1 Segments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	42
3.3 Accent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
3.4 Ablaut Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	98
3.5 Syntactically controlled phonological processes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	146
4 Nominal and pronominal morphology.
4.1 Noun morphology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
4.2 Independent personal pronouns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	237
4.3 Demonstratives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	238
5 Noun phrase structure.
5.1 Nominal modifiers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
5.2 Possession and compounding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	257
6 Prepositions.
6.1 Inventory of true prepositions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	272
6.2 Pronominal suffixes with prepositions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	274
6.3 Dative (or Purposive) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275
6.4 Instrumental and Comitative Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	276
6.5 Spatial prepositions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281
6.6 Compound prepositions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	288
6.7 Preposition-like particles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
7 Verbal morphology.
7.1 Augment verbs with -t- Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
7.2 Stem categories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	299
7.3 Verb classes and irregular verbs. 7.3.1 Regular classes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	341
7.3 Verb classes and irregular verbs. 7.3.2 Irregular and suppletive verbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	411
7.4 Pronominal subject paradigms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	431
8 Verbal derivation.
8.1 Causative (-s-, -s̩-, -š-, -z-, -ž-, -z̩-, -svw-) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	439
8.2 Passive (-t-, -tt-, -tvw-) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	466
8.3 Mediopassive (-m-, -η-, -nvy-) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	471
8.4 Reciprocal -nvm-, -m-, -n- Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	476
8.5 Participles (subject relatives) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	481
8.6 Verbal nouns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	506
8.7 Adjectival nouns without derivational prefix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	536
8.8 Agentives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	539
8.9 Nonagentive nominals with -m- or -n- Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	549
8.10 Denominal agentives (-mæs-, -næs-, etc.) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	552
8.11 Instrumental (and related) nominals with -s- or -s-vg- prefix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	554
8.12 Other nominals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	561
9 Verb phrases and other predications.
9.1 Voice (valency) types of verbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	573
9.2 Copular predications (‘be’, ‘become’) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	580
9.3 Locational and existential predications Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	582
9.4 Possessive predications Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	584
9.5 External negation and negative copular clauses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	585
9.6 Preverbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	586
9.7 Verbs borrowed from French Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	594
10 Clitics.
10.1 Sentential clitics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	595
10.2 Directional clitics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	595
10.3 Pronominal clitics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	603
10.4 Ordering of clitics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	610
11 Dicourse-functional particles and topicalization.
11.1 Topicalization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	615
11.2 Emphatics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	616
11.3 Other discourse particles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	617
12 Extraction.
12.1 Relativization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	623
12.2 Focalization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	642
12.3 Interrogatives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	649
13 Clausal subordination.
13.1 Adverbial clauses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	663
13.2 Purposive and causal clauses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	671
13.3 Jussive and subjunctive clauses (à.\d) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	674
13.4 Add-on small clauses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	680
13.5 Verbs with verbal noun complements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	683
13.6 Verbs and particles with finite complements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	687
13.7 Factive ‘that’ complements (s, à-\s) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	692
13.8 Reported speech and thought Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	695
13.9 Conditionals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	696
13.10 Possessive ̩ә̀n plus ‘that’ complement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	700
14 Coordination.
14.1 NP coordination Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	702
14.2 Clausal coordination Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	706
15 Anaphora.
15.1 Reflexive Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	708
15.2 Reciprocal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	709
16 Text
Text Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	711
Indices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	727
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	744

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eBook published on:

May 3, 2011

eBook ISBN:

9783110909586

Hardcover published on:

August 17, 2005

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110184846

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Front matter:

18

Main content:

745

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110909586

eBook ISBN: 9783110909586

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110184846

Keywords for this book

Tuareg /Sprache; Afrika /Sprache; Mali /Sprache

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Research Libraries, Teachers and advanced Students of Linguistics and Near-Eastern Studies

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A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

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