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Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

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(2) Dün çocuk-LAR okul-a git-Tİ mi?<br />

yesterday child-PL school-DAT go-PF INT<br />

‘Did the children go to school yesterday?’<br />

(iii) Slight rise, followed by fall-rise:<br />

This occurs:<br />

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(a) in questions involving a wh-phrase (e.g. ne ‘what’, nereye ‘where’, kim ‘who’<br />

(19.2)).<br />

(3) Her gün NEreye gid-iyor-SUN?<br />

every day where go-IMPF-2SG<br />

‘Where do you go everyday?’<br />

(b) in all intonational phrases whose content is not complete in itself and needs<br />

continuation. Important examples are conditional clauses, other adverbial clauses<br />

and all but the last of any co-ordinated series of items and of lists:<br />

(4) Eğer sokağ-a çık-mak isTİ-yor-SAN… (Conditional clause)<br />

if street-DAT go.out-VN want-IMPF-COND.COP-2SG<br />

‘If you want to go out…’<br />

(5) Bugün Ziya-yla buluş-tuĞ-UN zaMAN… (Adverbial clause of time)<br />

today Ziya-COM meet-CV-2SG.POSS time<br />

‘When you meet Ziya today…’<br />

(6) EVE gitTİM, ÇANtamı alDıM… (Co-ordinated items)<br />

‘I went home, took my bag…’

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