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The present study provides a detailed description of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay branch of the Nilo-Saharan language group. It is spoken by approximately 30,000 people, consisting mostly of the ethnic group of the Idaksahak who are living in the East of Mali as well as in isolated places in western Niger. The book is divided into four chapters giving a complete overview: The first short chapter provides information about the background of the Idaksahak. In the second chapter, the phonological features of the language are described, while the third chapter is dedicated to the description of the morphology of Tadaksahak. It is shown that verbal derivation pulls on unrelated Tamasheq for causative, reciprocal and middle as well as passive. In addition, any verb root that is of Songhay origin is suppleted when derived and a semantic equivalent of Tamasheq origin takes its place. Another non-Songhay feature concerns inflection where the subject pronoun cliticizes to the verb and is always present even when a noun phrase holds the subject slot. The nominalization strategy used depends on the etymology of the term, a feature paralleled in the formation of adjectives. The last chapter i

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Author

Regula Christiansen-Bolli, Harry Stroomer

Publisher

Rüdiger Köppe Verlag

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9783896459312

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Language Learning, Humanities