The Maṣdar: Meaning, Patterns, Governance and Iḍāfah

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• What is the core meaning of a maṣdar?
• Which item is the maṣdar?
• How do ḍarb and ḍārib differ?
• What is al-kitābatu in this nominal sentence?
• What determines basic triliteral maṣdars in the source?
• What is the familiar maṣdar of jalasa?
• What is the maṣdar of ʿalima?
• Maṣdar of Form IV akrama?
• What is the maṣdar of inkasara?
• Maṣdar of istaghfara?
• Maṣdar of taʿallama?
• Maṣdar of ʿallama?
• Which maṣdar belongs to zakkā?
• Which form uses infiʿāl?
• Which form corresponds to tafaʿʿul?
• Why does a maṣdar not fix tense?
• What type of verb is qāma?
• Case/function of qiyāmu in the sentence?
• Why is zaydin genitive in qiyāmu zaydin?
• What governs ʿamran in the transitive-maṣdar sentence?
• Whose action does zaydin perform?
• The object pronoun nī belongs to which governor?
• What is ḍarba in karihtu ḍarba zaydin ʿamran?
• To whom is the maṣdar annexed?
• Semantic role of ʿamrin in the second construction?
• Who performs the striking in that second construction?
• Case of ʿamran in the first annexation pattern?
• Case of zaydun in the object-annexation pattern?
• What does the textbook say about fronting a maṣdar’s dependent?
• What is wrong under the maṣdar-governance rule?
• Function of ḍarban in the absolute-object example?
• What governs ʿamran in ḍarabtu ḍarban ʿamran?
• Why are two words accusative?
• What governs qirāʾata in the reading example?
• What governs al-kitāba in the reading example?
• What role does risālatan have?
• What does jayyidatan modify?
• First syntactic question when analyzing a governing maṣdar?
• Which chapter follows al-maṣdar?
• A maṣdar itself does not determine a particular tense.
• Every triliteral Form I verb must have faʿl as its maṣdar.
• Ikrām is a Form IV maṣdar.
• Taʿallum and taʿlīm are maṣdars from the same derived form.
• Zaydin is formally genitive although semantically the actor.
• ʿAmran is the object of the maṣdar in this sentence.
• ʿAmrin is the semantic agent in this object-annexation construction.
• A maṣdar can be annexed to its object.
• The restriction on maṣdar dependents bans all object fronting with finite verbs.
• ʿAmran belongs to the finite verb in this absolute-object example.
• A maṣdar may itself be an object and also govern another object.