The Two Exclamatory Verbs: Forms, Rules and Parsing

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• What do the exclamatory verb patterns primarily express?
• How many regular patterns does the book list?
• Standard Basran parsing of mā?
• What is aḥsana here?
• How is the subject of aḥsana expressed?
• What is Zaydan in the first pattern?
• Syntactic position of the verbal clause?
• Meaning of mā in this example?
• Role of mā in this contrasting sentence?
• Purpose of aḥsin bi-Zaydin?
• How is bā labelled in the standard analysis?
• Surface case of Zayd after bā?
• Underlying syntactic role of Zayd in the mainstream parsing?
• What alternative does the commentary report from al-Akhfash?
• Which sentence is a genuine command?
• Direct exclamations follow formation eligibility of which pattern?
• Root length for regular direct formation?
• Why avoid direct formation from ijtahada?
• Which sentence correctly expresses intensity of effort?
• Parsing ijtihāda in the indirect pattern?
• Role of al-ṭālibi?
• Why is ijtihādi genitive here?
• Which method does this colour example illustrate?
• What is yukrama in this passive exclamation?
• What is al-ḍayfu in the passive example?
• Key semantic condition for direct formation?
• Why is māta not a standard source for direct taʿajjub?
• What restriction does aḥmar/ḥamrāʾ illustrate?
• General rule about morphological change in these two forms?
• Normal rule on fronting the exclamatory object?
• Whose view permits adverbial separation here?
• Type of separation reported in al-Māzinī’s view?
• Reason for accusative al-samāʾa?
• Underlying position of al-ḥadīqati?
• Which is the book’s first exclamatory example?
• Which is the book’s second exclamatory example?
• Key difference between comparative adjective and exclamatory verb?
• Which sentence is declarative rather than exclamatory?
• Which declarative paraphrase fits?
• Function of aḥsin ilā al-yatīmi?
• What grammatical position does mā occupy?
• Identify the subject and object accurately.
• What does calling bā “additional” NOT mean?
• Difference between kāda and mā aḥsana?
• Two regular verbal exclamation patterns are taught.
• Zaydan is the nominative subject.
• Mā is the mubtadaʾ in the standard analysis.
• Aḥsin bi-Zaydin is an ordinary command to Zayd.
• The second form can have an outwardly genitive subject.
• The commentary reports al-Akhfash’s alternate analysis.
• Mā has the same role in both sentences.
• Direct taʿajjub forms from every fixed verb.
• Triliteral form is a condition for direct derivation.
• A non-gradable event is excluded from standard direct formation.
• Colour/defect adjectives on afʿal/faʿlāʾ need indirect formation.
• Ijtihāda is an accusative object in the indirect pattern.
• Ijtihādi is outwardly accusative in this sentence.
• The exclamatory patterns freely conjugate.
• Standard exclamatory constructions preserve fixed word order.
• Al-Māzinī allowed certain adverbial separation.
• Al-Māzinī’s permission is a universal consensus.
• Mā is a preposition in the exclamation.
• Both sentences have identical meaning.
• The next chapter is verbs of praise and blame.