Other Interrogative Expressions: Different Objects of Conception

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• What primary function do the remaining interrogatives share?
• What is initially sought by Mā al-ʿanqāʾ?
• What is sought when mā asks for a referent’s essence?
• What intervenes between exposition of a name and inquiry into essence?
• Why is inquiry into existence difficult without grasping the name?
• What does Man fī al-dār seek?
• Why can kitāb answer Mā ʿindaka?
• What does the answer malak to Man Jibrīl show?
• When is ayy especially appropriate?
• What does ayy ask in Ayy al-farīqayn khayrun maqāman?
• What does interrogative kam request?
• What is a fitting reply to Kam kitāban qaraʾta?
• What is the primary force of declarative kam?
• What contextual force does Kam ātaynāhum min āyatin bayyina carry?
• What is a fitting answer to Kayfa Zayd?
• What is sought by Ayna Zayd?
• Which temporal domains can matā cover?
• What answer is needed to Matā sāfarta?
• To what time does ayyān refer?
• Which additional rhetorical coloring appears in Ayyāna yawm al-dīn?
• Which two major senses of annā are discussed?
• Which sense of annā is relevant in Faʾtū ḥarthakum annā shiʾtum?
• What is asked by Annā laki hādhā?
• What is the key difference between ayna and min ayna?
• What does the answer noun, verb or particle to Mā al-kalima address?
• What distinguishes conception and assent?
• Why does ayy require attention to shared alternatives?
• What distinguishes kayfa and ayna?
• Which contrast between matā and ayyān is most accurate?
• What does the next subsection, beginning p. 417, investigate?