The definitions of the structure of simple sentences in Turkish are united on the condition that the judgment must be single; that is, it must express a single predicate. In traditional grammar studies, subject and predicate are considered the basic elements of a simple sentence. According to the structural-functional approach, on the other hand, the predicate is accepted as the constituent element of the sentence, and simple sentences are divided into three types depending on whether the subject is included in the surface structure of the sentence or not: simple sentence with one element, simple sentence with two elements, and simple sentence with subtraction in which the predicate is not included in the surface structure. Among these sentence types, the most striking sentence type is the one-item sentence in which the subject is not included in the surface structure. Researchers have different views about whether the subject is the basic element in sentence organization. Kutadgu Bilig, the first known masnavi of Turkish literature and written in the meter of aruz, also has some limitations in terms of the way the text is composed. These limitations, which arise from the necessity to comply with harmonic elements such as meter and rhyme, also reveal the functional aspect of language. In this study, the structural features of the simple sentence in Kutadgu Bilig, a text written in the poetry genre, are analyzed, and the structural features and semantic functions of the subject and predicate, which are the constituent elements of the sentence, are tried to be described.

Keywords
Kutadgu Bilig, simple sentence, two-component sentence, one-component sentence, ellipsis sentence