Resumption in Standard Arabic revisited

Objectives: This study investigates prevailing assumptions concerning resumption in Standard Arabic (SA) based on corpus and experimental data. The focus is the actual use of gap strategies, sensitivity to islands, availability reconstruction effects wh-interrogatives relative clauses.
 Methods: To address these issues, two South African corpora were examined, both a grammaticality judgment task forced-choice conducted. sample consisted 70 females 55 males, ranging age from 25 63 years (with median 48). was emailed participants, who instructed complete it at their convenience then return via email researcher.
 Results: results reveal that, first, clauses pattern similarly issues. Second, strategies show strong islands. Third, does not ameliorate constructions with Fourth, available absence islands.
 Conclusions: These imply that SA are derived same movement.