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Chapter 19 - Postpositions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

F. Nihan Ketrez
Affiliation:
Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
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Summary

In this chapter, we learn words such as ‘like’ (‘I am a tourist like you.’), ‘since’ (‘We have been living here since 1990.’), ‘until’ (‘I will wait for you until 7pm.’) and so on. These words are called postpositions because they come after their nominal complements, as opposed to prepositions in English that come before their complements (‘for you, until 7pm, since Friday’ etc.) Just like verbs, the complements of postpositions take case markers and you need to learn each postposition together with the case marker that comes along with its complement.

This chapter has two sections. The first one is devoted to postpositions and their simplex complements. In the second section, we see postpositions with their nominalized, clausal complements (sentential). In the case of the clausal complements, you add -DIK or -(y)AcAK to the verb in the clause and then you attach the case marker that the postposition requires. See the examples below:

  1. Partiden sonra eve döndüm.

  2. ‘I returned home after the party.’

  3. Liseden mezun olduktan sonra Fransa'ya gideceğim.

  4. ‘I will go to France after I graduate from high school.’

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Print publication year: 2012

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  • Postpositions
  • F. Nihan Ketrez, Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
  • Book: A Student Grammar of Turkish
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511667077.020
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  • F. Nihan Ketrez, Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
  • Book: A Student Grammar of Turkish
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511667077.020
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  • Postpositions
  • F. Nihan Ketrez, Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
  • Book: A Student Grammar of Turkish
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511667077.020
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