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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heath, Jeffrey, author.

Series:

Mouton grammar library ; 35

Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ; 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tamashek language--Grammar.

Tamashek language.

Berber languages--Grammar.

Berber languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (763 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]

Language Note:

English

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).

Contents:

Frontmatter

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [744]-745) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9783110909586

3110909588

OCLC:

840441959