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 #
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.
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).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):
- A = a/e (twofold), I = ı/i/u/ü (fourfold)
- D = d/t (voicing assimilation)
The eight TAM categories of Turkish.
- pastDef : TAMCategory
- evidential : TAMCategory
- aorist : TAMCategory
- progressive : TAMCategory
- future : TAMCategory
- conditional : TAMCategory
- optative : TAMCategory
- necessitative : TAMCategory
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- Fragments.Turkish.TAM.instBEqTAMCategory.beq x✝ y✝ = (x✝.ctorIdx == y✝.ctorIdx)
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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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- Fragments.Turkish.TAM.instBEqTAMEntry.beq x✝¹ x✝ = false
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Copular suffixes that combine with basic TAM for compound tenses.
- pastCop : CopulaSuffix
- evidentialCop : CopulaSuffix
- conditionalCop : CopulaSuffix
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- Fragments.Turkish.TAM.instBEqCopulaSuffix.beq x✝ y✝ = (x✝.ctorIdx == y✝.ctorIdx)
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Exactly one TAM category has asymmetric negation.
The asymmetric category is the aorist.
All non-aorist categories use regular -mA- negation.
Cross-file bridge: TAM and Negation agree that the aorist is asymmetric.
TAM: asymmetric_is_aorist, Negation: aorist_asymmetric.