Turkish negation #

Turkish negates a verb with the suffix -mA-, -ma- or -me- by vowel harmony, between the stem and the tense suffix: gel-di 'came', gel-me-di 'did not come'. The aorist is the one tense whose marking changes under negation: the aorist suffix -ir of gel-ir 'comes' is -z in the negative of the second and third persons, gel-me-z, and is absent in the first person, gel-me-m beside gel-ir-im. Miestamo's examples are rows of Data.Examples.Miestamo2005.