A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali) / / Jeffrey Heath.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Heath, Jeffrey,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 35
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (745 p.)

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).

Table of Contents

I-XVIII -- 1 Introduction -- Introduction -- 2 Overview -- Overview -- 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. 7.3.1 Regular classes -- 7.3 Verb classes and irregular verbs. 7.3.2 Irregular and suppletive 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-, -η-, -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 -- Text -- Indices -- References