Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

Turkish: A comprehensive grammar 372
(b) Hakan [annesini sev-me-me-miz]-i anlıyordu.
(c) Hakan [annesini sev-me-yiş-imiz]-i anlıyordu.
‘Hakan understood [our not liking his mother].’
In (110) the (a) sentence states Hakan’s understanding of a situation at the factual level,
whereas the (b) and (c) versions relate his understanding to the situation itself, implying
that he understood why the speaker and others felt this way.
24.4.5.2 As oblique object of verbs of emotion
The semantic contrasts noted in 24.4.5.1 are neutralized where the noun clause is the
object of a verb of emotion, such as sevin- ‘be glad’ or üzül- ‘be sorry’. The -DIK/-
(y)AcAK forms are fully interchangeable with -mA in such contexts, as shown below:
(111) Hepimiz [çocuğ-un öyle bir suç işle-me-sin]-e üzüldük.
Hepimiz [çocuğ-un öyle bir suç işle-diğ-in]-e üzüldük.
boy-GEN such a crime commit-VN-3SG.POSS-DAT
‘We were all distressed [that the boy had committed such a crime].’
(112) [Hediyelerini beğen-me-me-miz]-den korkuyorlardı galiba.
[Hediyelerini beğen-me-yeceğ-imiz]-den korkuyorlardı galiba.
like-NEG-VN-1PL.POSS-ABL
‘I think they were afraid [we wouldn’t like their present].’
-(y)Iş clauses also can express the object of a verb of emotion, provided (as always in the
case of this suffix) that the situation is one that is actualized, i.e. has happened or is
ongoing at the moment of speech. The use of -(y)Iş also tends to be avoided with
affirmative transitive verbs (such as işle- in (111)), unless the sense of manner is
intended. (113) is an example with a negativized transitive verb, where all three forms
would be acceptable (cf. (83) for the -mA version):
(113) Mehmet, [Ali-nin kendisini çağır-ma-yış-ın]-a gücendi.
Ali-GEN invite-NEG-VN-3SG.POSS-DAT
‘Mehmet was offended by [Ali’s not inviting him].’
24.4.6 OMISSION OF GENITIVE MARKING ON THE SUBJECT OF
CLAUSES FORMED WITH POSSESSIVE-MARKED -mA OR -DIK/-
(y)AcAK
There are certain exceptions to the rule (24.1) that a noun phrase expressing the subject of
a non-finite noun clause receives genitive case marking. In this section we discuss four
types of subject that do not normally receive case marking.
(i) A noun phrase with categorial status (22.3):
This is the only type of noun clause subject where the addition of the genitive suffix
affects the meaning of the sentence, by changing the referential status of the subject from
categorial to definite: