Anacoluthons in Gulistan Tercumesi of Seyf-i Saray？

Qipchaqs known as Kipchak/Kifcak in the East, Kuman in the West, and Polovest in Russia, lived in the Qipchaq steppe, the Danube river basin, the Balkans, and the MiddleEast throughout their history. They founded the Mamelukes state (1250–1517) in Eygpt, and they created great Qipchaq literature there. The Gulistan, written by Sa’di al-Shiraziy, one of the greatest Persian poets, was translated from Persian to Qipchaq Turkish by Seyf al-Sarayi, a Qipchaq poet. This translation is one of the most important books among all Qipchaq books in terms of being a reflection of basic Mameluke Qipchaq Turkish features. This book, known as the Gulistan Tercumesi in Turkish, was academically prepared for publishing by Ali Fehmi Karamanlioglu during his associate professorship in 1968 in Turkey. In this study, all of the sentences in the Gulistan Tercumesi prepared by Karamanlioglu have been analyzed in terms of their anacoluthons. All of the anacoluthons in the Gulistan Tercumesi have been placed in three categories in terms of their usage: (a) conversations, (b) translations, and (c) other cases. The most common place for anacoluthons in the Gulistan Tercumesi is in conversational sentences, which are very typical in Turkish languages. Because anacoluthons appear in both spoken and written Turkish languages, they are most often found in conversations. However, it is important to note here that the Gulistan Tercümesi is an original work, although it is a translated book. Regular sentences in the Gulistan Tercumesi are more dominant than anacoluthons, which is quite normal in terms of general Turkish rules. In our opinion, this dominance is a result of Seyf’s Turkish language consciousness and his great knowledge of three languages