«جَاءَنِي الْقَوْمُ إِلَّا حِمَارًا»
jāʾanī: past verb with protective nūn and first-person object.
al-qawmu: nominative subject.
illā: exception marker.
ḥimāran: accusative disconnected exception.
The donkey cannot be treated as a member of “the people”; an ordinary partitive substitution analysis is therefore inappropriate.
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Al-Mustathnā: Connected and Disconnected Exceptions, Four Case Rules
«جَاءَنِي الْقَوْمُ إِلَّا حِمَارًا»
jāʾanī: past verb with protective nūn and first-person object.
al-qawmu: nominative subject.
illā: exception marker.
ḥimāran: accusative disconnected exception.
The donkey cannot be treated as a member of “the people”; an ordinary partitive substitution analysis is therefore inappropriate.