Fasaha of Discourse: Weak Composition, Word Disharmony and Obscurity
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- What must fasaha of discourse satisfy?
- Which issue is central to weak composition?
- What is the key objection in “daraba ghulamuhu Zaydan”?
- What is the grammatical role of Zaydan in the original example?
- What distinguishes word disharmony from letter disharmony?
- What defect does “qabr Harb bi-makan qafr” illustrate?
- Why is successive “amdahuhu amdahuhu” discussed?
- Is all repetition incompatible with fasaha?
- What is the defining feature of taʿqid?
- Where does verbal taʿqid arise?
- What is the chief concern of semantic taʿqid?
- Which defect does the Farazdaq example illustrate?
- What kinship relation is expressed by “abu ummihi”?
- Can a grammatical sentence still have taʿqid?
- When can fronting and postponement count as verbal taʿqid?
- What concern arises when using “shedding tears” figuratively?
- Are all metaphors and allusions instances of semantic taʿqid?
- What does tatabuʿ al-idafat mean?
- Which subsidiary topic includes “Hamamata Jarʿa Hawmat al-Jandal isjaʿi”?
- What is “isjaʿi” in the dove verse?
- Where may phonetic difficulty arise despite familiar individual words?
- What is the best method when diagnosing a discourse defect?
- Which pairing is correct?
- How are a sound-pattern defect and semantic taʿqid distinguished?
- Do individually fasih words guarantee fasaha of the whole discourse?
- Weak composition and word disharmony are two names for the same defect.
- The famous grave-line chiefly demonstrates heaviness of the combined expression, not one word’s morphology.
- Verbal taʿqid requires a word absent from the dictionary.
- A well-signaled allusion is not unfasih simply because it is an allusion.
- Every sequence of multiple idafa relations is necessarily incorrect and unintelligible.