إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ مُسْتَهْزِئُونَ
We are only mocking.
“Innamā naḥnu mustahziʾūn” explains the speakers’ claim that they are only mocking. Analysis of coordination must keep track of which phrases belong to the reported utterance and what kind of shared status, if any, is intended.
A reader must distinguish the identity of the speaker, the syntactic relation and the semantic relation. A superficial coordination may obscure one or more of these even when adjacent sentences appear closely related.
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Faṣl and Waṣl: Definitions, Sentence Coordination, and the Requirement of a Common Link
إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ مُسْتَهْزِئُونَ
We are only mocking.
“Innamā naḥnu mustahziʾūn” explains the speakers’ claim that they are only mocking. Analysis of coordination must keep track of which phrases belong to the reported utterance and what kind of shared status, if any, is intended.
A reader must distinguish the identity of the speaker, the syntactic relation and the semantic relation. A superficial coordination may obscure one or more of these even when adjacent sentences appear closely related.