Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

Relative clauses 391
In informal registers it can also refer to the future:
(57) [Yarın çık-an] gazete-de önemli bir yazı bulun-acak.
tomorrow appear-PART paper-LOC important an article be-FUT
‘There will be an important article in the paper [that comes out tomorrow].’
-DIK also typically refers to non-future situations:
(58) [geçen hafta bitir-diğ-im] roman
last week finish-PART-1SG.POSS novel
‘the novel [I finished last week]’
(59) [şu sırada okuduğum] roman
‘the novel [I am reading at the moment]’
It can also refer to situations which precede or are simultaneous with a future situation
referred to in the superordinate clause:
(60) Sonunda [git-tiğ-in] okul nasıl olsa bir spor akademi-si ol-acak.
in.the.end go-PART-2SG.POSS school in any case a sports academy-NC be-FUT
‘In the end, whatever school [you go to], it will be a sports academy.’
-(y)AcAK refers to future situations. The futurity may be in relation to the time of
utterance:
(61) [yarın oku-yacağ-ım] makale
tomorrow read-PART-1SG.POSS article
‘the article [that I’m going to read tomorrow]’
Or it may be futurity with respect to any other point in time, which may itself be in the
past:
(62) [Dün oku-yacağ-ım] makale-yi ancak bugün oku-yabil-di-m.
yesterday read-PART-1SG.POSS article-ACC only today read-PSB-PF-1SG
‘The article [that I was to read yesterday], I managed to read only today.’
(63) [Geçen hafta göreceğim] film Mavi Kadife’ydi.
‘The film [that I was going to see last week] was Blue Velvet.’
25.4.1 THE USE OF AUXILIARY ol- IN RELATIVE CLAUSES
The strategy used for indicating finer specifications of tense and aspect in relative clauses
is to attach the participle suffixes to the auxiliary verb ol-, producing the forms olan,
olduK- and olacaK- (see 13.3.1.2). This strategy allows the verb of the relative clause to
combine freely with some of the tense and aspect markers, producing compound forms
such as bak-mış ol-an ‘who has looked’, bak-maz ol-duğ-um ‘that I have stopped looking
at’, etc. However, it should be noted that even this strategy is, at times, insufficient, and
verbs in relative clauses may not express tense and aspect as fully as their finite
counterparts do.
The attachment of the participle suffixes to the auxiliary ol- makes it possible to
express the following tenses and aspects in a relative clause: