Turkish affixes in Western Kurmanji

Summary

Affix function number of borrowed affixes

Description

Information and examples are from Haig (2007: 173) (see also Matras 2007: 45).

 

1 clause‑final clitic conditional marker

=se ‘conditional’, e.g. eer bapirê min ewna ne‑girt‑ine cem xa=sa ew‑na di‑mir‑in (if/grandfather/I/they/not_take/to/reflexive=conditional/they/die) ‘If my grandfather had not taken them in they would have died’