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(c) The 3rd person plural suffix -lAr of group 2 when it is attached to a non-casemarked
subject complement:
Tutsáklar ‘They are prisoners’ (see also 8.4, 22.3 (34)).
(v) The particle bile ‘even’ (11.1.1.1):
Ahmét bile ‘even Ahmet’
(vi) The clitic mI (11.1.1.5):
gittiníz mi? ‘did you go?’
(vii) The clitic -(y)sA/ise (11.1.1.3):
bénse ‘as for me’
(viii) The negative marker -mA (8.2.2) and composite suffixes containing it (e.g. -mAdAn
(8.5.2.2)):
gít-me-dik ‘we didn’t go’
bák-madan ‘without looking’
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Note that one exception is the occurrence of -mA in the negative aorist form -mA(z)
(8.2.3.3), which is stressable, e.g. bak-máz-dık ‘we were not in the habit of looking’, yazmá-yız
‘we will not write’.
(ix) The clitics dA (11.1.1.2 (ii–iii)), ki (11.1.1.4) and ya (11.1.1.6):
anlıyorúm da ‘I understand, but…’
bakmıyordúm ki ‘but I WASN’T looking’
gördǘm ki ‘I realized that…’
gördǘm ya ‘I HAVE seen (it)’
4.3.2.1 The effect of unstressable suffixes and clitics on word stress
The addition of unstressable suffixes and clitics to a word may or may not change the
existing position of stress within that word. (Note that clitics attach to phrases which may
be made up of one or more words (Chapter 11)).
Regular roots
The addition of any one of the unstressable suffixes and clitics except the negative suffix
and the clitics in (ix) above (i.e. dA, ki and ya) to a regular root does not change the
existing position of stress in that word:
geldilér ‘they have arrived’ geldilér-se ‘if they have arrived’
geldilér bile ‘they have already arrived’