İYELİK EKİ

Tamlayan eki: -(n)In        > attached to the possessor (Genitive Suffix)

İyelik eki: -(s)I                 > attached to the possessee (Possessive Suffix)

Bileşik isimler (Compounds) > lack the Genitive Suffix

Ø  Meaningwise, not necessarily a possession-relation

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What if we have a possessee that is, at the same time, a possessor?

è We require both suffixes

Örneğin: Özge’s mother’s friend / the friend of Özge’s mother

                Özge-nin anne-si à Possessor = Özge, possessee = anne

                [Özge-nin anne-si]-nin arkadaş-ı à Possessor = Özge’nin annesi, possessee = arkadaş

What happens if we also have a case suffix? (other than getting tired of suffixation?)

e.g. [the friend of Özge’s mother] is beautiful.

  [[Özge-nin anne-si]-nin] arkadaşı güzel. >> Subject position – no overt case marker

e.g. I don’t like [the friend of Özge’s mother]

like = hoşlanmak à requires Ablative (-DAn)

Ben [[Özge-nin anne-si]-nin arkadaş-ı]-ndan hoşlanmıyorum.

-          The internal structure of the possessive construction remains the same.

-          The case suffix is attached to the final position.

-          If the possessive construction occupies the subject position in the sentence, no case suffix is added. (Thank God!)

Ø  Whenever the possessive suffix (-sI) is followed by a case marker, a ‘kaynaştırma harfi’ n occurs after –sI, irrespective of whether the case marker starts with a consonant or a vowel.