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(a) [o sırada seyret-mekte ol-duğ-um] videolar
at that time watch-ıMPF AUX-PART-1SG.POSS videos
(b) [o sırada seyret-tiğ-im] videolar
watch-PART-1SG.POSS
‘the videos [I was watching at the time]’
-(I)yor olacaK- marks progressive or habitual aspect in the (relative) future. The
interpretation depends on contextual clues, in particular the type of time adverbial used:
(74) [[Erol geldiği sırada] seyrediyor olacağım] film eskilerden biri olacak(tı).
The film [that I will (would) be watching at the time of Erol’s arrival] will
(would) be one of the old ones.’ (Progressive)
(75) [Yakında her gün görüyor olacağım] terapist acaba bana dayanabilecek mi?
‘I wonder if the therapist [that I will soon be seeing every day] will be able to put
up with me.’ (Habitual)
(iv) -(A/I)r olduK-, -mAz olan, -mAz olduK, -mAz olacaK:
The aorist marker -(A/I)r, which in finite clauses can have aspectual or modal meaning
(21.3.2, 21.4.1), in relative clauses is an aspectual marker with habitual meaning. It
occurs only with olduK-:
(76) [Artık sık sık görüşür olduğumuz] komşularımızı başta hiç sevmemiştik.
‘At first we didn’t like our neighbours, [whom we see quite often now].’
-mAz, the negative counterpart of -(A/I)r, is used with all three forms of the participle, to
express a habitually non-occurring action or state:
(77) Semra [yakında giy-e-mez ol-acağ-ı] giysilerini bu günlerde
soon wear-PSB-NEG.AOR AUX-PART-3SG.POSS
özellikle giymek istiyor.
‘Semra particularly wants to wear now the clothes [that she will soon not be able
to wear].’
25.4.1.1 The omission of olan: truncated relative clauses
olan can be omitted from the forms -mIş olan (25.4.1 (i)) and -(y)AcAk olan (25.4.1 (ii)),
in a way somewhat similar to the omission of ‘who is’, ‘which was’, etc. in some kinds of
relative clause in English:
(78) [kömür-de piş-miş] patlıcan (cf. kömürde pişmiş olan patlıcan)
coal-LOC cook-PF aubergine
‘aubergine [cooked on coal]’
(79) [iki kilometre yüz-ecek] birisi (cf. iki kilometre yüz(ebil)ecek olan birisi)
two kilometre swim-FUT someone
‘someone [attempting/able to swim two kilometres]’