Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

Conjunctions, co-ordination and discourse connection 453
This group of discourse connectives presents the result of a state of affairs described in
the preceding sentence(s):
(89) Ahmet’in ehliyeti yok. Dolayısıyla araba kullanamaz.
‘Ahmet doesn’t have a driving licence. As a result he is not allowed to drive.’
For dolayı as a postposition see 17.2.3.
28.3.7 INFERENTIAL
demek (ki) ‘that means’, ‘so’ stands at either the beginning or the end of the sentence in
which it is located, and indicates that this sentence expresses an inference drawn from
what has been said previously:
(90) Görgü şahidi olarak mahkemeye çağırılmışsın. Demek sen de kaza
yerindeydin!
‘I hear you’ve been summoned as an eye witness. So you were at the scene of the
accident as well!’
(91) Orhan artık Amerika’ya iyice alışmış demek ki.
‘So Orhan is well and truly settled in America, it seems.’
For the inferential connective yoksa see 19.5.3.
28.3.8 TEMPORAL
This group of discourse connectives includes önce ‘first’, sonra ‘then’, daha sonra
‘later’, ondan/bundan sonra ‘then’, onun/bunun üzerine ‘upon this/that’, derken ‘just
then’:
(92) Ücretlerinde bir artış olmadı. Onlar da bunun üzerine grev yapmaya karar
verdiler.
‘They got no pay increase, upon which they decided to go on strike.’
The informal connective derken introduces an event that comes as the climax of a process
or series, or a situation that creeps up on someone without their realizing it:
(93) Bütün gün ev baktık. Osmanbey, Şişli, Mecidiyeköy, Beşiktaş’ta dolaşıp
durduk. Derken saat beş olmuş.
‘We spent all day looking at flats. We went round and round Osmanbey, Şişli,
Mecidiyeköy [and] Beşiktaş. And suddenly it was five o’clock.’
For a fuller discussion of temporal adverbials see 16.4.1, and for önce and sonra as
postpositions see 17.2.3.
28.3.9 CONDITIONAL
The discourse connectives in this group express what conditionality, if any, attaches to
one or other of the conjuncts.