A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)
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A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

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  2. English
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A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

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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).

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Table of contents

  1. Abbreviations
  2. 1 Introduction
  3. 1.1 Tuareg and Berber linguistics
  4. 1.2 Literature on non-Tamashek Tuareg
  5. 1.3 Historical background
  6. 1.4 Malian Tamashek
  7. 1.5 Neighboring languages
  8. 1.6 Fieldwork and other data
  9. 1.7 Acknowledgements
  10. 2 Overview
  11. 2.1 Recurrent morphosyntactic patterns
  12. 2.2 Nouns
  13. 2.3 Prefix Reduction
  14. 2.4 Noun phrases
  15. 2.5 Verbs
  16. 2.6 Simple main clauses
  17. 2.7 Clitics
  18. 2.8 Focalized clauses
  19. 2.9 Relative clauses
  20. 2.10 Accent
  21. 2.11 Representation of stems
  22. 2.12 Ablaut
  23. 3 Phonology
  24. 3.1 Segments
  25. 3.2 Local assimilations and syllabification rules
  26. 3.3 Accent
  27. 3.4 Ablaut
  28. 3.5 Syntactically controlled phonological processes
  29. 4 Nominal and pronominal morphology
  30. 4.1 Noun morphology
  31. 4.2 Independent personal pronouns
  32. 4.3 Demonstratives
  33. 5 Noun phrase structure
  34. 5.1 Nominal modifiers
  35. 5.2 Possession and compounding
  36. 6 Prepositions
  37. 6.1 Inventory of true prepositions
  38. 6.2 Pronominal suffixes with prepositions
  39. 6.3 Dative (or Purposive)
  40. 6.4 Instrumental and Comitative
  41. 6.5 Spatial prepositions
  42. 6.6 Compound prepositions
  43. 6.7 Preposition-like particles
  44. 7 Verbal morphology
  45. 7.1 Augment verbs with -t-
  46. 7.2 Stem categories
  47. 7.3 Verb classes and irregular verbs
  48. 7.4 Pronominal subject paradigms
  49. 8 Verbal derivation
  50. 8.1 Causative (-s-, -s̩-, -š-, -z-, -ž-, -z̩-, -svw-)
  51. 8.2 Passive (-t-, -tt-, -tvw-)
  52. 8.3 Mediopassive (-m-, -n-, -nvy-)
  53. 8.4 Reciprocal -nvm-, -m-, -n-
  54. 8.5 Participles (subject relatives)
  55. 8.6 Verbal nouns
  56. 8.7 Adjectival nouns without derivational prefix
  57. 8.8 Agentives
  58. 8.9 Nonagentive nominals with -m- or -n-
  59. 8.10 Denominal agentives (-mæs-, -næs-, etc.)
  60. 8.11 Instrumental (and related) nominals with -s- or -s-vg- prefix
  61. 8.12 Other nominals
  62. 9 Verb phrases and other predications
  63. 9.1 Voice (valency) types of verbs
  64. 9.2 Copular predications (‘be’, ‘become’)
  65. 9.3 Locational and existential predications
  66. 9.4 Possessive predications
  67. 9.5 External negation and negative copular clauses
  68. 9.6 Preverbs
  69. 9.7 Verbs borrowed from French
  70. 10 Clitics
  71. 10.1 Sentential clitics
  72. 10.2 Directional clitics
  73. 10.3 Pronominal clitics
  74. 10.4 Ordering of clitics
  75. 11 Dicourse-functional particles and topicalization
  76. 11.1 Topicalization
  77. 11.2 Emphatics
  78. 11.3 Other discourse particles
  79. 12 Extraction
  80. 12.1 Relativization
  81. 12.2 Focalization
  82. 12.3 Interrogatives
  83. 13 Clausal subordination
  84. 13.1 Adverbial clauses
  85. 13.2 Purposive and causal clauses
  86. 13.3 Jussive and subjunctive clauses (à.\d)
  87. 13.4 Add-on small clauses
  88. 13.5 Verbs with verbal noun complements
  89. 13.6 Verbs and particles with finite complements
  90. 13.7 Factive ‘that’ complements (s, à-\s)
  91. 13.8 Reported speech and thought
  92. 13.9 Conditionals
  93. 13.10 Possessive ̩ә̀n plus ‘that’ complement
  94. 14 Coordination
  95. 14.1 NP coordination
  96. 14.2 Clausal coordination
  97. 15 Anaphora
  98. 15.1 Reflexive
  99. 15.2 Reciprocal
  100. 16 Text
  101. Indices
  102. References