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The document discusses relative clauses in Iraqi Arabic and the use of resumptive pronouns. It begins with an introduction to relative clauses in Arabic and key differences from English, such as the obligatory use of complementizers like "illi" in definite relatives. The paper then analyzes resumptive pronouns in Iraqi Arabic, examining their behavior in islands, crossover effects, reconstruction, and scope binding to determine if they pattern like traces or like independent pronouns. The conclusion is that
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- psign
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