Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

garden-GEN rain-ABL before-ADJ state-3SG.POSS
‘the state of the garden before the rain’
Postpositional phrases headed by possessive-marked postpositions can be used
adjectivally only if the postposition has locative case marking, and again the addition of -
ki is necessary to effect the conversion from adverbial to adjectival function (15.3.6):
(102) Harun-la ara-mız-da-ki gerginlik
Harun-CONJ between-1PL.POSS-LOC-ADJ tension
‘the tension between Harun and me/us’
(103) sendikacılık tarihi konusundaki araştırmalarınız
‘your research on (the subject of) the history of trade unionism’
17.4.3 PREDICATIVE FUNCTION
Some types of postpositional phrase can be the subject complement in a linking sentence
(12.1.1.2). All the bare postpositions whose phrases are used adjectivally can also occur
in predicates. So also can için, karşı, yana, and the locative-marked forms of the
possessive-marked postpositions:
(104) Bu çiçekler sizin içinmiş.
‘Apparently these flowers are for you.’
For further examples see (28), (33) and (53) above.
In the case of the possessive-marked postpositions, it is only those that are locativemarked
that can function predicatively:
(105) Can’ın arabası evin önünde.
‘Can’s car is in front of the house.’
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The addition of -ki is not required unless pronominalization is intended (18.5):
(106) Can’ın arabası evin önündeki.
‘Can’s car is the one in front of the house.’