Does the permissibility of an indefinite mubtadaʾ necessarily negate every other person?
Fronting the Subject: Restriction, Reinforcement and the al-Jurjani–al-Sakkaki Debate
- Yes, because every mubtadaʾ is singular
- Yes, because every indefinite hides lā
- No, because an indefinite can never be mubtadaʾ
- No; syntactic specification and rhetorical exclusivity can differ