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Linglib.Fragments.Turkish.TAM

Turkish Tense-Aspect-Modality System #

@cite{goksel-kerslake-2005}

The TAM system is the core of the Turkish verbal paradigm (@cite{goksel-kerslake-2005} Ch 21, Appendix 2). There are five basic TAM categories and three modal categories, occupying a single paradigmatic slot.

Key properties #

  1. Evidential -mIş is a TAM marker, not a separate evidential morpheme. It fills the same paradigmatic slot as -DI (past definite) and cannot co-occur with it.

  2. Aorist negation is asymmetric: affirmative -(I)r becomes negative -mAz rather than the expected *-mA-(I)r. All other categories use regular -mA- negation (see also Fragments.Turkish.Negation).

  3. Compound tenses are formed by adding a copular suffix (-DI, -mIş, -(y)sA) to the basic form: geliyordu (progressive + past copula).

Suffix notation #

Capital letters indicate vowel harmony alternation (see Fragments.Turkish.VowelHarmony):

The eight TAM categories of Turkish.

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      TAM suffix entry with positive and negative forms.

      • category : TAMCategory
      • affSuffix : String
      • negSuffix : String
      • isNegSymmetric : Bool

        Is negation symmetric (neg = stem + -mA- + TAM)?

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                Copular suffixes that combine with basic TAM for compound tenses.

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                    theorem Fragments.Turkish.TAM.one_asymmetric :
                    (List.filter (fun (x : TAMEntry) => !x.isNegSymmetric) entries).length = 1

                    Exactly one TAM category has asymmetric negation.

                    The asymmetric category is the aorist.

                    theorem Fragments.Turkish.TAM.non_aorist_symmetric :
                    ((List.filter (fun (e : TAMEntry) => e.category != TAMCategory.aorist) entries).all fun (x : TAMEntry) => x.isNegSymmetric) = true

                    All non-aorist categories use regular -mA- negation.

                    theorem Fragments.Turkish.TAM.tam_negation_aorist_agreement :
                    ((List.filter (fun (x : TAMEntry) => !x.isNegSymmetric) entries).head!.category == TAMCategory.aorist) = true (List.filter (fun (e : Negation.NegParadigmEntry) => !e.symmetric) Negation.gelParadigm).head!.formLabel = "aorist"

                    Cross-file bridge: TAM and Negation agree that the aorist is asymmetric. TAM: asymmetric_is_aorist, Negation: aorist_asymmetric.