RİSÂLETÜ’N-NUSHİYYE’DE Kİ / KİM BAĞLAÇLARININ KULLANILIŞI

Turkish is a language in which conjunctions are rarely used due to its basic structure. The conjunctions used in the establishment of auxiliary sentences in Turkish were taken from the languages of the nations which Turks first encountered, and transferred to Turkish. The words such as kaçan, kayru, kim, and ne which existing in Turkish for a long time, have been given new meanings to connect auxiliary sentences in foreign languages. The influence of Turkish by other languages and cultures under various conditions has also led to the addition of some conjunctions to Turkish. Especially after the adoption of Islam, it is seen that some prepositions and conjunctions from Arabic and Persian entered Turkish. One of these conjunctions is ki which has entered our language from Persian. Especially in the Old Anatolian Turkish period, the conjunction ki is often used to consolidate, reinforce, cause-effect, explanation, etc. has established a connection between the auxiliary sentence and the basic sentence by taking over functions. Kim interrogative pronoun, which has been used in every period of Turkish since ancient Turkish, has gained the function of conjunction in addition to its interrogative function in the Old Anatolian Turkish period with the influence of ki. In this study, the use and functions of ki and kim conjunctions in Risâletü'n-Nushiyye, one of the important mesnevi of XIII. and XIV. century literature will be discussed.