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(72) [Hiçbir şeyin denize atılması] doğru değil.
‘It isn’t right for anything at all to be thrown into the sea.’
(73) [Hasan’ın sana yardım için hiçbir şey yaptığı] yok.
‘Hasan does absolutely nothing to help you.’
The verb of a noun clause containing hiç ‘never’, ‘ever’, ‘at all’ (20.5.1) and (hiç)kimse
‘no one’, ‘anyone’ (20.5.3) can be affirmative also in questions:
(74) [Kimsenin kapıyı çaldığın]-ı duydun mu?
‘Did you hear [anyone ring the door bell]?
20.6.2 EXPRESSIONS INTERACTING WITH NEGATION IN
RELATIVE CLAUSES AND ADVERBIAL CLAUSES
When a relative clause (Chapter 25) or an adverbial clause (Chapter 26) contains one of
the expressions listed in 20.5, the verb of that clause is obligatorily negative:
(75) [Ortalıkta hiç iz bırakmayan] hırsız, yandaki evi de soymuş.
‘It seems that the burglar, [who hasn’t left any traces], has also burgled the house
next door.’
(76) Necla [kocasından hiç haber alamayınca] tutuklandığını sanmış.
‘[When Necla didn’t hear from her husband at all], she thought he had been
arrested.’
One exception is clauses with -(y)Ip, which have to be left without negative marking if
the verb in the superordinate clause is negative:
(77) Onunla hiçbir zaman görüşüp konuşamadık.
‘We never managed to see each other and talk.’
See 28.2 for details.
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