Gaps and resumptive pronouns in Modern Standard Arabic
Mansour Alotaibi, Robert D. Borsley · Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar · 2013
Unbounded dependencies in Modern Standard Arabic often involve not a gap but a null resumptive pronoun. The facts are quite complex, but it is not too difficult to extend the SLASH mechanism of HPSG to handle dependencies with a null resumptive pronoun. It is also not too difficult to restrict the distribution of gaps appropriately.