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Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

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<strong>Turkish</strong>: A comprehensive grammar 48<br />

Note that the clitic dA ‘also’, ‘and’, which regularly occurs after all the inflectional<br />

suffixes in a word, in colloquial usage may appear between the two segments of -(y)Abil<br />

(8.2.3.2):<br />

(4) Gid-ebil-ir-im de.<br />

go-PSB-AOR-1SG also<br />

INFL-INFL-INFL CL<br />

‘And I can [indeed] go.’<br />

(5) Gör-üş-tür-ül-e-me-ye de bil-iyor mu-ydu-nuz?<br />

see-REC-CAUS-PASS-PSB-NEG-PSB also PSB-IMPF INT-P.COP-2PL<br />

‘Did it also sometimes happen that you were not allowed to see each other?’<br />

The attachment properties of each suffix and clitic are described in the relevant sections<br />

of Chapters 7, 8 and 11. See also 7.3 for the internal ordering of derivational suffixes.

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