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Voice suffixes, the negative marker and copular markers may also occur in finite verb
forms:
(6) Yık-ıl-ma-mış-tı.
demolish-PASS-NEG-PF-P.COP
‘It had not been demolished.’
The order in which the suffixes appear in a finite verb form is:
ROOT-VOICE-NEGATION-TENSE/ASPECT/MODALITY-COPULAR MARKER-
PERSON MARKER-DIr
(7) Döğ -üş -tür -t -ül -me -yebil-iyor -
muş -sunuz -dur.
beat -REC-CAUS-CAUS-PASS -NEG -PSB-IMPF -EV.COP -
2PL -GM
VOICE NEGATIVE TAM COPULAR PERSON
MODALITY
SUFFIXES MARKER SUFFIXES MARKER MARKER
MARKER
‘It is presumably the case that you sometimes were not made to fight.’
Irregular combinations are explained in the description of individual suffixes.
(ii) Non-finite verb forms:
The inflectional suffixes that can appear in non-finite verb forms are the following:
voice suffixes (8.2.1)
the negative marker (8.2.2)
tense/aspect/modality markers from positions 1 and/or 2 (8.2.3.1–2)
subordinating suffixes (8.5)
nominal inflectional suffixes (8.1)
Non-finite verb forms obligatorily contain a subordinating suffix (also called a
subordinator). Because these are nominalized forms, most of them can be followed by
some or all of the nominal suffixes described in 8.1 (see 8.5 for details).
(8) sev-mek-le
like-SUB-INS
‘by loving [him/her/it]’
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The order of the suffixes in a non-finite verb form is the following:
ROOT-VOICE-NEGATION-SUBORDINATING SUFFIX-NOMINAL
INFLECTIONAL MARKERS
(9) bak -tır -ma -dığ -ın -dan
check -CAUS -NEG -SUB -2SG.POSS -
ABL
VOICE NEGATIVE SUBORDINATOR PERSON CASE