A Second Sense of Majāz: Case Changes Through Ellipsis and Addition
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- What is the main focus of the second use of majāz?
- What does “through shared naming or resemblance” indicate?
- What is meant here by the ruling of grammatical case?
- Which two processes are named in “by deletion or addition”?
- What is the role of rabbika in the reconstruction “jāʾa amru rabbika”?
- Why is rabbuka nominative in “wa-jāʾa rabbuka”?
- Which reconstruction is offered for the first Qurʾānic example?
- What is the case of al-qarya in “isʾal ahla al-qaryati”?
- Why is al-qaryata accusative in the expressed wording?
- Why do the two ellipsis examples produce different case outcomes?
- What question is answered by saying that “town” means its people?
- How does the first analysis classify kāf in “laysa ka-mithlihi shayʾ”?
- What is mithlahu in the reconstructed “laysa mithlahu shayʾ”?
- Why is mithlihi genitive in the expressed wording?
- What is the grammatical status of shayʾun in the verse?
- What does NOT follow from calling kāf grammatically additional?
- How does the non-additional-kāf reading explain the meaning?
- What is the main disagreement between the two readings?
- Which inference correctly describes denial through a necessary consequence?
- What is the intended result of the indirect “like of a like” explanation?
- Why is kināyah described as more emphatic here?
- Which comparison of the two resulting case forms is correct?
- Which statement correctly distinguishes grammatical and semantic majāz?
- Which statement properly distinguishes case form and predicate function?
- What most directly connects this lesson with the coming chapter on kināyah?
- Both Qurʾānic examples are analyzed through omission in their reconstructed forms.
- After omitting an annexation head, the remaining complement must always become a nominative subject.
- On the additional-kāf reading, “mithl” is genitive in form after kāf.
- Both interpretations of kāf affirm that God has a likeness.
- Denying a necessary consequence requires a genuine implication between the propositions.