Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

Turkish: A comprehensive grammar 368
(b) [Ayşe-nin ameliyat ol-duğ-u] söyle-n-iyor. (cf. Ayşe ameliyat
say-PASS-IMPF
olmuş.)
‘It is (being) said [that Ayşe has had an operation].’
The verbal predicate of a sentence with a -DIK/-(y)AcAK clause as its subject is the
passivized form of a verb such as those listed in (ii) below.
(ii) With the noun clause as direct object:
This occurs with main verbs such as bil- ‘know’, ‘think’, anla- ‘understand’, ‘realize’,
san- ‘think’, düşün- ‘think’, söyle- ‘say’, yaz- ‘write’, duy-/işit-‘hear’, öğren- ‘learn’:
(91) O gün Suzan bana [artık dayan-a-ma-yacağ-ın]-ı söylemişti.
bear-PSB-NEG-VN-3SG.POSS-ACC
(cf. (6) and (22) above)
‘That day Suzan had told me [that she couldn’t bear [it] any longer].’
Where the noun clause is the object of bil- ‘know’, ‘think’, the factual status of its content
depends on the position of stress within the sentence. When stress is placed on the main
verb bil-, it means ‘know’, and the content of the noun clause expresses an established
fact:
(92) [Sen-in abla-n-ın yanında ol-duğ-un]-u biL-İyor-du-m.
you-GEN sister-2SG.POSS-GEN with be-VN-2SG.POSS-ACC know-IMPF-
P.COP-1SG
‘I knew [you were with your sister].’
When, on the other hand, stress is placed within the noun clause, bil- is interchangeable
with san- ‘think’, and the noun clause expresses a supposition that may turn out (or have
turned out) to be false:
(93) [Senin ABlanın yanında olduğun]-u biliyordum/sanıyordum.
‘I thought [you were with your sister].’
(iii) With the noun clause as oblique object:
This occurs with inan- ‘believe’ (dative marking) and emin ol- ‘be sure’ (ablative
marking):
(94) [Bize o kadar büyük bir para ver-ecek-lerin]-e inanmamıştım.
give-VN-3PL.POSS-DAT
‘I never believed [that they would give us such a large amount of money].’
A -DIK/-(y)AcAK clause also occurs with ablative marking as the oblique object of
existential possessive expressions (12.1.1.2) with haber ‘knowledge (of)’, ‘awareness
(of’) as subject:
(95) [Ahmet-in evlen-diğ-in]-den haber-im yok-tu.
Ahmet-GEN marry-VN-3SG.POSS-ABL knowledge-1SG.POS non-existent-
P.COP
‘I had no idea [that Ahmet had got married].’