Merchant (2001) argues that the stranding is derived by IP deletion of an underlying wh construction at the level of PF (after Ross 1969), as shown in (1):(1) a. Jack bought something, but I don't know [CP what [IP Jack bought ti]].b. Jack talked to someone, but I don't know [CP whoi [IP Jack talked to ti]]. The merchant proposes (2) to capture the parallelism between sluice and wh-questions: (2) Preposition-stranding generalization (PSG) A the language L will allow preposition stranding under sluice iff L allows preposition stranding under regular sluice. The PSG is demonstrated in (1b) in which the wh-sluice 'which' leaves a stranded preposition under sluice, consistent with English being a P-stranded language. Merchant further demonstrates the descriptive power of the PSG by verifying its applicability to more than twenty languages. Examples from other languages ​​continue to confirm its validity (e.g. Almeida and Yoshida 2007, Stjepanović 2008, Rodrigues, Nevins and Vicente 2009, Van Craenenbroeck 2010). In this banger, I study Emirati Arabic (henceforth EA) in detail and argue that it provides cases in which PSG can be falsified. In EA, while the P-strand is prohibited in wh-questions, elucidation is possible even when the underlying structure contains a failed preposition, for example: (3) John ʃərab gahwa [wɪjja ħəd], bəs maa ʕərf [ mənuJohn drank coffee with someone but not 1.know whoJohn ʃərab gahwa [PP wɪjja ti]].John drank coffee with “John drank coffee with someone, but I don't know who. » Potential counterexamples to PSG have been presented in other languages, but closer analyzes reveal that they do not involve P-stranding by wh-movement (e.g., Brazilian Portuguese...... middle of article......who? In Proceedings of the 5th Linguistic Society of Chicago, ed. Robert I. Binnick, Alice M Green and Jerry L. Morgan, 252-286. , IL. Sato, Yosuke 2011. Stranding P under lock and ellipsis repair: why is Indonesia (not) special Linguistics 20: 339-382. Clause structure and order? words in Hebrew and Arabic: an essay in comparative Semitic syntax Oxford: Oxford University Press. Shlonsky, Ur. 2002. Constitutive issues in Palestinian Arabic, ed. Jamal Ouhalla and Ur Shlonsky, 137-155. . Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Stjepanović, Sandra 2008. P-Stranding under lockout in a non-P-stranding language? Linguistic Survey 39: 179-190. Wahba, Wafa. 1984. Wh-constructions in Egyptian Arabic. Doctoral dissertation, Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois.