Al-Majrūrāt — Semantic and Formal Iḍāfah

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• Why is Zaydin genitive in marartu bi-Zaydin?
• What is the tāʾ in marartu?
• Which word is mudāf in ghulāmu Zaydin?
• What is Zaydin in ghulāmu Zaydin?
• Why is ghulāmu nominative in jāʾa ghulāmu Zaydin?
• Why is ghulāma accusative in raʾaytu ghulāma Zaydin?
• What disappears when ghulāmun becomes mudāf to Zayd?
• Why can Zaydin retain tanwīn in this iḍāfah?
• What is the nominative construct form of ghulāmāni?
• What is ghulāmā in jāʾanī ghulāmā Zaydin?
• What happens to nominative muslimūna in iḍāfah?
• What is the case of muslimī in marartu bi-muslimī al-madīnah?
• Which two types of iḍāfah does the book name?
• What kind of iḍāfah is ghulāmu Zaydin?
• Which relation is understood in khātamu fiḍḍatin?
• Which implied relation occurs in ṣalātu al-layl?
• What does ghulāmu Zaydin gain from semantic iḍāfah?
• What is gained in ghulāmu rajulin?
• What kind of iḍāfah is ḍāribu Zaydin?
• What semantic role does Zaydin have in ḍāribu Zaydin?
• What kind of word is ḥasanu in ḥasanu al-wajh?
• What is the primary benefit of formal iḍāfah?
• What is ḍāribi in marartu bi-rajulin ḍāribi Zaydin?
• Which expression is prepositional, not a construct?
• What role does ghulāmu have in hādhā ghulāmu Zaydin?
• Why is ghulāmi genitive in marartu bi-ghulāmi Zaydin?
• What is the case of fiḍḍatin in khātamu fiḍḍatin?
• Which expression illustrates the uncombined sense of ḍāribu Zaydin?
• Which statement about ghulāmu rajulin is correct?
• Why is the sound-plural nūn absent in muslimū al-madīnah?
• How do we recognize that Zaydin is mudāf ilayh rather than governed by bi-?
• What rule is shared by semantic and formal iḍāfah?
• What is al-layli in ṣalātu al-layl?
• What remains in nominative ghulāmā Zaydin after nūn deletion?
• Why paraphrase ghulāmu Zaydin as ghulāmun li-Zaydin?
• Zaydin in marartu bi-Zaydin is a mudāf ilayh.
• The mudāf loses tanwīn in iḍāfah.
• The dual nūn remains in ghulāmā Zaydin.
• Khātamu fiḍḍatin is semantic iḍāfah with the sense of min.
• Ghulāmu rajulin is necessarily definite.
• In ḍāribu Zaydin, Zaydin is genitive in form but the semantic object.
• Formal iḍāfah primarily lightens the expression.
• A mudāf is always nominative.