Mistake 1: Reading every kam as a question. Fix: declarative kam expresses abundance.
Mistake 2: Making rajulan genitive because kam is governed by a preposition. Fix: the tamyīz has its own case rule.
Mistake 3: Calling kam a direct object in the blows-counting example. Fix: it expresses number of occurrences, a cognate-object function.
Mistake 4: Treating kayta as a numeral. Fix: it stands in for unspecified speech.
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Frequent mistakes and repairs
Al-Kināyāt — Kam, its Tamyīz and Syntactic Positions
Mistake 1: Reading every kam as a question. Fix: declarative kam expresses abundance.
Mistake 2: Making rajulan genitive because kam is governed by a preposition. Fix: the tamyīz has its own case rule.
Mistake 3: Calling kam a direct object in the blows-counting example. Fix: it expresses number of occurrences, a cognate-object function.
Mistake 4: Treating kayta as a numeral. Fix: it stands in for unspecified speech.