A Grammar of Turkish Sign Language (TİD)

With respect to the order of constituents, temporal adjuncts can occur before or after the subject before the verb.  In the following sentence, yesterday precedes the subject.

yesterday ix₁ school go^not

‘Yesterday, I did not go to school.’

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The following example illustrates that the temporal adjunct can also follow the subject in the preverbal domain.

gül_a last week bodrum go

‘Gül went to Bodrum last week.’

                                                                              (adapted from Kayabaşı et.al. in press, example 3)

A temporal adjunct within an embedded clause also occurs after the subject.

                                ___hs

                                _________re    _________lips-p

[bilge yesterday   what read]    know^little 

‘I know, a little, what Bilge read yesterday.’          

                                                                                              (adapted from Hakgüder 2015a, example 103)