Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

Conjunctions, co-ordination and discourse connection 459
(122) öğretmen-ler(…) ve öğrenci-ler-le
teacher-PL and student-PL-COM ‘with (the) students and (the) teachers’
If one of these suffixes occurs with the plural marker and a possessive suffix, all three
can be suspended:
(123) köy(…), kasaba(…) ve kentlerimizden
‘from our villages, small towns and cities’
(iii) -ki can be suspended either on its own or with a preceding locative or genitive
marker:
(124) bilgisayar(…) ve yazıcınınki
‘the one belonging to the computer and printer’
28.4.1.3 Omission of other items: -(y)ken, bile, mI, ki
The following are also often omitted from all but the final item in a series of conjuncts:
(i) The adverbial marker -(y)ken (26.3.16 (iii)):
(125) insanlar küçük(…) ve daha konuşmaz-ken
‘when people are small and can’t yet talk’
(ii) The connective bile ‘even’ (28.3.1.1 (iv)):
(126) Dersini çalış-mış(…) ve odanı topla-mış-sa-n bile sokağa çıkamazsın.
‘You can’t go out even if you have done your homework and tidied your room.’
(iii) The interrogative marker mI (11.1.1.5):
(127) Gittin(…) ve gördün mü?
‘Have you gone and seen (it)?’
(iv) The subordinator ki (11.1.1.4):
(128) Gördüm (…) ve biliyorum ki…
‘I have seen and know that…’
28.4.2 THE ELISION OF PHRASES IN CO-ORDINATED
CONSTRUCTIONS
The following constituents can be elided when they are in co-ordinated constructions
within the sentence:
(i) Determiners and adjectives:
(129) yeşil bir atkı ya da (…) şapka
‘a green hat or (a green) scarf’
(ii) Adverbs and modifiers of adjectives and adverbs:
(130) yavaşça oturup (…) kalk-