Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

Index 500
niçin 28, 303
nitekim 525
niye 303
Nominal 49–50
Nominal predicate 85–6, 120, 434–5
tense/aspect in 125–6
person marking in 87–9, 132
and referential status 385
and stress 390
of subordinate clause 126, 456
Nominal sentence 120–4
aspect in 125–6, 335–8
modality in 125–6;
see also -DIr negation in 313–14, 316,
see also Existential sentence, Linking sentence
Nominal-verb compounds, 17, 18, 19, 29, 160
Non-case-marked NP 173–5, 215
as complement of postposition 242–5, 251–2
as direct object 174, 373, 376, 377, 379, 383, 391
as subject 173–4, 430–1, 468
as subject complement 121, 134–5, 174, 378
as time adverbial 227–8, 229
Non-definite NP, 124, 174, 176, 440–1, 444
and topicalization 400
and word order 399, 400
see also Categorial, Indefinite
Non-finite verb form 73–4, 135;
see also Converb, Participle, Verbal noun
Non-specific NP 175, 197, 252, Ch. 22 passim, 373–7, 456–7;
see also Categorial NP, Generic reference
Noun 49
countable/uncountable 163–5
doubled 100
as head of NP 162
proper 19, 162, 186, 371
Noun clause Ch. 24 passim
questioning part of 307
inside relative clause 447–8
and word order 399, 401, 403
Noun compounds Ch. 10 passim
as head of NP 162–3
stress in 28–9
see also -(s)I compounds Noun phrase Ch. 14 passim
animate/inanimate 129, 130, 131, 383, 389, 392
elision of 537–8
inflection 68–72, 165–82
modification 163, Ch. 15 passim
position of determiners and numerals within 207–12
referential status Ch. 22 passim