Turkish affixes in Kurmanji

Summary

Affix function number of borrowed affixes

Description

Information and examples are from Haig (2007:173; see also Matras 2007:45). The borrowing occurs in the western dialects of Kurmanji.

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’