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the word "seni"
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10.       CANLI
5084 posts
 15 Aug 2008 Fri 01:12 am

İn poems you may see.

11.       Emil Erman
118 posts
 15 Aug 2008 Fri 07:56 pm

 

Quoting Janette1169

So if Seni is you .. that means Seni Seviyorum is you i love in english.. why is it back to front so to speak?

 

If you use Seni in another context is it always used at the start of a sentence or just in this case?

 

It´s actually a rather substantial difference. Languages are divided into 2 categories with respect to this issue, that is the position of the "verbal head" inside a phrase. There are head-first languages like most of the indo-european languages (French, Italian, Spanish, English etc.) and there are head-after languages like Turkish and a series of other languages. In the normal Turkish syntactic structure the verb comes at the end of the phrase.

The difference also applies for noun-heads, not only for verbal heads.

Like for instance if you take the genitive in English there are theoretically two ways of expressing it:

1.John´s wife (synthetic or saxon genitive

and

2. Wife of John (analytic genitive)

 

Clearly you have a different word order based on the position of the noun-head.

 

If you´re interested in this topic look for linguistics courses namely issues like heads and modifiers.

 

Hope it helps,

 

erman

 

 

 

 

 

 

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