The Phenomenon of Speaker Ghosting and the Cancellability Feature of the Turkish -mIş Forms
Journal: Athens Journal of Philology
Year: 2026

The paper deals with the phenomenon of speaker ghosting in Modern Turkish and the cancellability of -mIş forms. The approach is based on findings in several publications by Krasimir Kabakčiev on speaker ghosting in Bulgarian, in which the reason for the non-grammaticality of certain types of Bulgarian sentences with two witnessed verb forms is established and explained. For such sentences to become grammatical, they must be re-phrased using perfect verb forms in the dependent clause – which are