Arabic-L:LING:Case responses

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

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1) Subject: Case response
1) Subject: Case response

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Date: 23 Sep 1999
From: ruediger.arnzen at ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Subject: Case response

Dear Mr. Peled:

As for cases in Middle Arabic you may wish to check the "Index of
Middle Arabic usage in manuscript readings" which forms part of the
GREEK AND ARABIC LEXICON (eds. G. Endress and D. Gutas),
fasc. 1-5, Brill: Leiden / Boston 1992- (cf. Appendix: Part E). Some
references I remember by heart are fasc. 4: p. 333.11f, p. 350.22,
fasc. 5: p. 595.24f, p. 604.3f, but I am quite sure that fasc. 1-3
comprise some more cases.

With best wishes
Ruediger Arnzen
Ruhr University Bochum

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Date: 23 Sep 1999
From: ns2 <w_samy at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Case response

>lam yaHduth shay?an ("nothing happened"), where shay?an takes the
>accusative -an rather than the nominative ending -un.
This is not correct because the noun shay? is the faa9il.

> 2. ta9yiinu waziiran ("the appointment of a minister"), where waziira=
> n
> takes the accusative rather than the genitive ending -in.

This is also not correct because the noun waziir is a muDaaf ilayh.
There are instances where the maSDar (eg ta9yiinu above) will
act as a verb and cause a following noun to be an object.  But the
above example is not one of them.

If you have seen such examples, then all I can say is that they are
in clear violation of the rule.

Waheed

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