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Since Ross 1967 resumptive pronouns (RPs) have been described as an islandrescuing device in English and other languages (Ross 1967; Kroch 1981; Erteschik-Shir 1992). Indeed, RPs show immunity to island constraints in some languages (Aoun et al. 2001, McCloskey 2006), as illustrated by the following Lebanese Arabic example:(1) hđrna l-masrahiyye yalli tʕarrafna ʕala l-muχriƷ yalli ʔaχraƷ-*(a) saw. 1pl the-play that met. 1pl on the-directorthat directed. 3sm-*(it)‘We saw the play that we met the director that directed it.’(Aoun and Choueiri 1996, ex.(12))