Printed pages 200–207 ask not merely ‘what does fronting do?’ but which conditions are indispensable to ascribing an effect and which are only one proposed explanation. Five issues recur:
1. The difference between overt nouns and pronouns.
2. Grammatical versus semantic agency.
3. Whether an underlying order can properly be reconstructed.
4. Why an indefinite may stand as mubtadaʾ.
5. How context, obstacles and competing assumptions affect interpretation.
Together they reveal the method of ʿilm al-maʿānī: a rhetorical judgment must respect both grammar and the communicative situation.