Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

TURKISH CLAUSE LINKAGE^551

(44) Belki odam-da yat-ιyor- ---um-dur.

maybe room-Loc lay-PROG-mlş sleep-PROG-m/j-lsG-DUR

"Maybe I was in my room sleeping."

(45) Odam-da yat-ιyor- -r--um-dur.

room-Loc lay-PROG-mlş sleep-PROG-mlş-lsG-DUR

"Maybe I was in my room sleeping."

(46) ?* Belki odam-da yat-iyor- -r--.

maybe room-LOC lay-PROG-mIş sleep-PROG-mIş-lsG

The -dir suffix, which in this construction has a function of marking status
has scope over both clauses whether belki "maybe" is in the first clause (44)
or not (45). The sentence (46) is extremely awkward, at best, since the final
verb is not explicitly marked for status, even though the status adverb
occurs in the initial clause.
In this construction, then, the clauses share all clausal operators but
may have independently specified core and nuclear operators. Hence this
construction could be either clausal cosubordination or core coordination.
The former would involve clauses with independent clausal arguments shar­
ing the clausal operators; the latter would be two full cores sharing their
clausal operators. More significantly, however, for F&VV core juncture
(and not clausal juncture) always involves obligatory sharing of a core argu­
ment. Since that is the case in this construction, we conclude that it is an
example of core coordination.

6.2 -ErEk

Another construction involving core coordination is marked by -ErEk,

which "denotes a single act or continued activity contemporaneous with or

slightly prior to the main verb" (Lewis 1967:177). As in the preceding con­

struction, the first clause is dependent on the final verb for both its tense

and evidentiality reading. Also, as is characteristic of core juncture, the

clauses must share the same subject:

(47) Çocuk koş-arak gel-di.

child r-rk -

"The child came running."

(48) Çocuk koş-arak gel-miş.

child run-ErEk come-miş

"(They say) the child came running."