Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

Afrikalılaşíyor or Afríkalılaşıyor ‘s/he is becoming Africanized’
If two suffixes of this group of stressable suffixes occur on the same word, the first one is
stressed:
tut-úver-iyor ‘s/he suddenly takes hold of [it]’
4.3.2 UNSTRESSABLE SUFFIXES AND CLITICS
There are a number of suffixes and clitics in Turkish which do not take stress and are prestressing
except in certain cases where two of them occur within the same intonational
phrase (see 11.2). These are:
(i) The copular markers -(y)DI, -(y)mIş, -(y)sA (8.3.2), the converbial marker -(y)ken
(8.5.2.2) and the generalizing modality marker -DIr (8.3.3):
gel-sé-ymiş ‘if s/he had arrived’
gid-ér-se ‘if s/he goes’
otur-úr-ken ‘while sitting’
oku-yacák-tır ‘s/he will most certainly read’
(ii) The marker -(y)lA/ile ‘with’, ‘by’, ‘and’ (8.1.4):
elíyle ‘with his/her hand’, ‘his/her hand and…’
Alí’yle ‘with Ali’, ‘Ali and…’
(iii) The derivational suffixes -(A/I)cIK, -CA, -CAsInA, -en, -(y)In, -lA (7.2.2.2), -leyin, -
rA:
úfacık ‘tiny’ kadínca ‘womanly’
uçárcasına ‘as if flying’ tamámen ‘completely’
kíşın ‘in winter’ yáyla ‘plateau’
néreye ‘[to] where’ όrada ‘there’
(iv) The following person markers (8.4):
(a) the 1st and 2nd person markers belonging to group 2, i.e. -(y)Im, -sIn, -(y)Iz, -
sInIz:
uyúrum ‘I sleep’, ‘I will sleep’
anlamíşsın ‘you have understood’
(b) The 2nd person markers of group 4, i.e. -yIn, -yInIz, and those belonging to
group 3, i.e. -sIn, -sInIz. (Note that the other -sIn, i.e. the 3rd person optative and
imperative suffix (groups 3 and 4) is stressable):
anlayásınız (diye) ‘(so that) you understand’
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