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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ; 35Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (745 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110184846
  • 9783110909586
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 493/.385 22
LOC classification:
  • PJ2381.1 .H43 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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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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

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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).

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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