What most fundamentally distinguishes khabar from inshāʾ?
Inshāʾ: Requestive and Non-requestive Forms, Imperative Constructions and Rhetorical Functions
- Khabar makes a truth-evaluable claim; inshāʾ directly performs a request or other non-assertive act
- Khabar must always use the past tense
- Inshāʾ consists of only one word
- Inshāʾ cannot express a question