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(2) Kağıtları da okuMUŞ mu?
‘Has s/he read the papers too (i.e. in addition to doing other things)?’
(3) Çerçeveleri bile temizlemişSİN ya!
‘But you have even cleaned the frames!’
11.2.2 THE COMBINATION OF CLITICS WITH THE NEGATIVE
MARKER -mA
-mA usually generates stress, causing it to fall on the syllable preceding it (4.3.2.1).
However, when it occurs in combination with one of the clitics mI (interrogative), dA (in
its additive function, see 28.3.1.1 (iiia)) or bile, stress falls before whichever one occurs
first in the sentence:
(4) Bu gözlükle sahneYİ mi göremiyormuş?
‘Can’t s/he see the STAGE with these glasses?’
(5) Yeni öğrencilerini daha GÖRmedin mi?
‘Haven’t you seen your new students yet?’
(6) BEN de içmeyeceğim.
‘I’m not going to have [any] either.’
(7) Semra ücretini aLAmamış bile.
‘Semra couldn’t even [succeed in] getting her wages.’
The pre-stressing effect of ki, ya or adversative dA (28.3.4 (i)) in sentence-final position
is strong enough to neutralize the pre-stressing effect of a preceding -mA. When -mA
occurs with ki or ya stress falls on the syllable preceding ki or ya:
(8) Kimseyi görmeDİM ki!
‘But I didn’t see anyone!’
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This happens even if the syllable in question is otherwise unstressable (see 4.3.2):
(9) (Hani) eski gazeteleri atmamışTIM ya…
‘Remember I hadn’t thrown away the old newspapers?…’