Al-Murakkabāt — Compound Numerals, the Twelve Exception and Declining Baalbek

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• What defines the compounds in this source chapter?
• Why is «عَبْدُ اللَّهِ» unlike the compound proper name in this lesson?
• Rather than a compound noun, what is «قَامَ زَيْدٌ»?
• How are both components of «أَحَدَ عَشَرَ» treated?
• What is the syntactic position of «أَحَدَ عَشَرَ» in «جَاءَ أَحَدَ عَشَرَ طَالِبًا»?
• What is the numeral in «رَأَيْتُ أَحَدَ عَشَرَ طَالِبًا»?
• Where is the numeral in «مَرَرْتُ بِأَحَدَ عَشَرَ طَالِبًا»?
• Why can a subject numeral retain final fatḥah?
• In this example, what is «طَالِبًا»?
• How are the parts of thirteen analysed here?
• Which number is excepted from the general 11–19 rule?
• What marks the nominative on «اثْنَا»?
• Why does the first element appear as «اثْنَيْ»?
• What is the case of «اثْنَيْ» after بِـ?
• What happens to «عَشَرَ» in twelve?
• How is «اثْنَتَا» analysed?
• Why is «طَالِبَةً» accusative after eleven?
• How should this incorrect nominative subject form be fixed?
• What is wrong with «رَأَيْتُ اثْنَا عَشَرَ طَالِبًا»?
• What does the alternation «اثْنَا/اثْنَيْ» show?
• What is the preferred analysis of the first component of Baalbek?
• How does the last component of Baalbek decline?
• What case is marked on the last component of «جَاءَنِي بَعْلَبَكُّ»?
• Why does the final component have fatḥah in «رَأَيْتُ بَعْلَبَكَّ»?
• What does the last fatḥah signify after بِـ?
• How do the two fatḥahs differ in «رَأَيْتُ بَعْلَبَكَّ»?
• What distinguishes Baalbek from «غُلَامُ زَيْدٍ»?
• What does «فَفِيهَا لُغَاتٌ، أَفْصَحُهَا ...» establish?
• How do the second elements of eleven and Baalbek differ?
• What would be missed if Baalbek were parsed exactly like an indeclinable compound number?
• What is the role of Baalbek in «بَعْلَبَكُّ مَدِينَةٌ»?
• Why is the final component written with fatḥah after إِلَى?
• Which pairing of the three compound types is correct?
• Which compound-numeral phrase correctly uses singular accusative tamyīz?
• Which is the source’s explicit example of the compound proper-name type?
• Why does the second component of Baalbek lack tanwīn?
• What is the syntactic role of the attached «ي» in جَاءَنِي?
• Which case is correct on the numerical specification after بِأَحَدَ عَشَرَ?
• What does the dual pronoun in «بِنَاؤُهُمَا» refer to?
• Which false generalization does «لَيْسَتْ بَيْنَهُمَا نِسْبَةٌ» prevent?
• Which analysis of «عَشَرَ» in twelve is correct?
• Every iḍāfah automatically counts as a blended compound in this chapter.
• In 11 and 13–19, both parts of the ordinary compound numeral are built on fatḥ.
• The final fatḥah on «أَحَدَ عَشَرَ» proves it is the object in «جَاءَ ...».
• The first part of twelve is «اثْنَا» in nominative and «اثْنَيْ» in accusative/genitive.
• In «رَأَيْتُ اثْنَيْ عَشَرَ طَالِبًا», the noun طَالِبًا is genitive.
• In the preferred analysis, Baalbek’s first component remains fixed on fatḥ.
• In «مَرَرْتُ بِبَعْلَبَكَّ», the second element is accusative because it ends in fatḥah.
• The source declines Baalbek’s second component like a diptote.
• The final component of Baalbek must take tanwīn in every case.
• The author mentions variant usages for compound names but selects a preferred form.