1. 1. Possesor Phrase Possessee Noun (Genitive Noun phrase) (Head Noun) 2.Possessee Noun Possesor Phrase (Head Noun) (Genitive Noun phrase) GENITIVE PHRASE

2. kungaka-r evike-r-tyn child-PL toy-PL-3PL.POSS Gen N ‘(the) children’s toys’ (Nedjalkov 1997: 82) EVENKI (ALTAIC (TUNGUSIC): RUSSIA)

3. mimi-na bolo bladder-CONST pig N Gen ‘(the) pig’s bladder’ (Crowley 2002: 530) GELA (AUSTRONESIAN (OCEANIC): SOLOMON ISLANDS)

4.  John’s bike Gen N  the roof of the house NGen ENGLISH

5. Türkçede sondan eklemeli bir dil olduğu için sahiplik durumunu belirtirken iyelik eklerini kullanır ve bu ekler isimden sonra gelir.

6. Tekil Kişiler: Ben (-ım, -im, -um,-üm) Kitab-ım Sen (-ın, -in, -un, -ün) Kitab-ın O (-ı, -i, -u, -ü, -sı, -si, -su, -sü) Kitab-ı Çoğul Kişiler: Biz (-ımız, -imiz, -umuz, -ümüz) Kitab-ımız Siz (-ınız, -iniz, -unuz, -ünüz) Kitab-ınız Onlar (-ları, -leri) Kitap-ları İYELİK EKLERİ

7.  kapı-nın kol-u Noun-GEN Noun-3rd Sg. Poss. (Possesor Phrase) (Possessee Noun)  Sınıf-ın kapı-sı Noun-GEN Noun-3rd Sg. Poss. (Possesor Phrase) (Possessee Noun) GENITIVE PHRASES IN TURKISH

8. Order of Genitive Phrase Constituents in 1248 Languages 685 (54.9 %) GenN 467 (37.4 %) Ngen 96 (7.7 %) don’t have any dominant word order DRYER’ S DATABASE

9. Order of Genitive Phrase Constituents in 76 Languages 35 (46.1 %) NGen 33 (43.4 %) GenN 8 (10.5 %) don’t have any dominant word order IN APICS

10. 1. Adjective Noun 2. Noun Adjective NOUN PHRASES (CONTAINING AN ADJECTIVE MODIFYING THE NOUN)

11. atek a bahai mountain LK big N Adj ‘big mountain’ (Adelaar & Muysken 2004: 562) GÜNÜNA KÜNE (CHON (PUELCHE): ARGENTINA)

12. dami kitap costly book Adj N ‘costly books’ (Goswami & Tamuli 2007:475) ASSAMESE (INDO-EUROPEAN (INDIC): INDIA)

13.  a red flower Adj. N  an old man Adj. N ENGLISH

14.  fakir genç Adj. N  beyaz kelebek Adj. N TÜRKÇE

15. Noun-Adjective Word Order in 1366 Languages 878 (64.3%) NAdj. 373 (27.3%) AdjN 5 (0.4%) don’t have any dominant word order DRYER’ S DATABASE

16. Noun-Adjective Word Order in 76 Languages 49 (64.5 %) AdjN 20 (26.3 %) NAdj 7 (9.2 %) don’t have any dominant word order IN APICS

17.  Demonstratives can be a free wordor an affix.  Demonsrative word can preceed or follow the noun  Demostrative affix can be prefix or suffix on the noun  Demostrative word or affix may preceed and follow the noun DEMONSTRATIVES

18. m ʉ d лâ(k) person this.CL1 N Dem ‘this person’ (Beavon 1986: 174) KONZIME (NIGER-CONGO (BANTOID): CAMEROON)

19. a’aw wemittokōsi that Frenchman Dem N ‘that Frenchman’ (Schwartz & Dunnigan 1986: 300) MINNESOTA OJIBWE (ALGIC (ALGONQUIAN): USA)

20. he ʔ -l- ʔ aška ʔ this-art-coyote Dem-N ‘this coyote’ (Wash 2001: 58) BARBAREÑO CHUMASH (CHUMASH (CHUMASH): USA)

21. (220) mòл-è man.cs1-dem1 N-Dem ‘this man’ (Andersen 2002: 14) AGAR DINKA (NILO-SAHARAN (NILOTIC): SUDAN)

22. io trano io this house this Dem N Dem ‘this house’ (Keenan & Polinsky 1998: 567) MALAGASY (AUSTRONESIAN (BARITO): MADAGASCAR)

23.  this/ that book Dem N  these/ those books Dem N ENGLISH

24.  bu/şu/o kitap Dem N TÜRKÇE

25. Demonstratives-Noun Order in 1223 Languages 560 (45.8 %) NDem 542 (44.3 %) DemN 28 (2.3 %) with demonstrative suffix 9 (0.7 %) with demonstrative prefix 17 (1.4 %) word or affix both preceed and follow 67 (5.5 %) no order or strategy is dominant DRYER’ S DATABASE

26. 1. Number Noun 2. Noun Number 3. Verb Number THE NUMERAL

27. négy toll four pen Num N ‘four pens’ (Kenesei et al. 1998: 96) HUNGARIAN (URALIC (UGRIC): HUNGARY)

28. mwoe tili house five N Num ‘five houses’ (Tryon 2002: 576) BUMA (AUSTRONESIAN (OCEANIC): SOLOMON ISLANDS)

29. ma ʔ włt ip ʔ ły matet cagárokōm=nem man fish catch.IND yesterday two=ADVZ ‘the man caught two fish yesterday.’ (Dryer 2011n citing Gabas, Jr 1999: 172) ARÁRA KARÓ (TUPIAN (RAMARAMA): BRAZIL)

30. a. na dva mal’čika PRQ two boy.SG.GEN ‘two boys’ b. mal’čika na dva boy.SG.GEN PRQ two ‘about two boys’ (Billings 1995: 31, 33) RUSSIAN (INDO-EUROPEAN (SLAVIC): RUSSIA)

31. five books Num N ENGLISH

32. beş öğrenci Num N TÜRKÇE

33. Numeral-Noun Word Order in 1154 Languages 608 (52.7 %) NNum 479 (41.5 %) NumN 65 (5.6 %) don’t have dominant word order DRYER’ S DATABASE