In a bisentenial analysis of split questions drawn primarily from Spanish
data, Arregi (2010: 540) notes that ”(m)any of the Spanish judgments reported here
can be replicated in other languages, but no systematic attempt has been made to
check every claim made here cross-linguistically”. I argue in this article that the elliptical analysis of split questions can be extended to Modern Standard Arabic if they are analyzed in a movement-free fashion by treating them as a constellation of two well-motivated operations in the grammar: ellipsis and coordination.