What position is challenged by “allowing the semantic but not the grammatical agent to precede is arbitrary”?
Fronting the Subject: Restriction, Reinforcement and the al-Jurjani–al-Sakkaki Debate
- The claim that agent and object are always identical
- The claim that every fronted noun is a pronoun
- Allowing semantic fronting while forbidding grammatical fronting without justification
- Permitting a postverbal subject