Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

Turkish: A comprehensive grammar 188
(106) [Jale’nin sevdiği] iki yer
‘two places [Jale likes]’
(107) [Korkut’u o halde gör-müş olan] bütün arkadaşlarımız
‘all our friends [who have/had seen Korkut in that state]’
However, under certain conditions the determiner or numeral can optionally precede the
relative clause:
(i) If the relative clause consists only of a verb (participle):
(108) birkaç (tane) [oynayan] çocuk/[oynayan] birkaç (tane) çocuk
‘a few children [playing]’
(109) şu [gördüğünüz] kalabalık/[gördüğünüz] şu kalabalık
‘this crowd [that you see]’
(ii) If the relative clause is of the type marked by -(y)An (25.1.1.1), and does not contain,
apart from its verb, any constituent other than a one-word, non-case-marked adverbial, as
in (110), or a categorial direct object (13.1.2.1, 22.3), as in (111):
(110) her [hızlı akan] nehir/[hızlı akan] her nehir
‘every [swiftly-flowing] river’
(111) kimi [ün yap-an] oyuncular/[ün yap-an] kimi oyuncular
some fame make-PART actor-PL
‘some actors [who become famous]’
(iii) Demonstratives can be placed before any kind of relative clause, but if this contains a
noun phrase (other than a categorial direct object) there is potential ambiguity of the kind
noted for demonstratives preceding -ki adjectivals (15.9.5):
(112) o çocuğun yaptığı resim
(a) [o çocuğ-un yap-tığ-ı] resim
that child make-PART-3SG.POSS picture
‘the picture [(which) that child painted]’
(b) o [çocuğun yaptığı] resim (=[çocuğun yaptığı] o resim)
‘that picture [(which) the child painted]’
As explained in the case of -ki constructions, the ambiguity is in practice usually
eliminated by the manner of utterance.