If the hearer wants to identify which of two people is standing, which expression may foreground exclusion?
The Separating Pronoun (Ḍamīr al-Faṣl): Restriction, Emphasis and Predication
- Treating the bare report as invariably equally restrictive
- Zayd huwa al-qāʾim
- Is Zayd standing?
- The bare adjective qāʾim