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10.       woodardskjr
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 04 Mar 2011 Fri 02:03 pm

I have a question about in reported speech ın Turkish. I have noticed many SUBJ-final sentences in my sons´ dergileri when a character is being quoted, a diye-clause. In looking for examples, I only can find long sentences at the moment, kusura bakmayın.

Örneğin (Winnie the Pooh dergisinden):

"Arkadaşlarım sayesinde yalnızca kendimi kötü hissetmmekten kurtulmadım, kendimi müthiş hissetmeye başladım!" diye neşeyle haykırdı Winnie.

There are two other examples in this story.

I assume the alternative is to start the sentence with Winnie. Is this proper or just the way things are in (translated?) çocuklar hikayeleri?

11.       si++
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 04 Mar 2011 Fri 02:55 pm

 

Quoting woodardskjr

I have a question about in reported speech ın Turkish. I have noticed many SUBJ-final sentences in my sons´ dergileri when a character is being quoted, a diye-clause. In looking for examples, I only can find long sentences at the moment, kusura bakmayın.

Örneğin (Winnie the Pooh dergisinden):

"Arkadaşlarım sayesinde yalnızca kendimi kötü hissetmmekten kurtulmadım, kendimi müthiş hissetmeye başladım!" diye neşeyle haykırdı Winnie.

There are two other examples in this story.

I assume the alternative is to start the sentence with Winnie. Yes exactly! That would be the regular SOV order.Is this proper or just the way things are in (translated?) çocuklar hikayeleri? Turkish is free formatted language meaning you can change the order of a sentence freely, as it happens frequently in daily speech. I think in this case it´s only the writer´s (or translator´s) choice to put "Winnie" at the end.

 

 

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