This study aims to re-examine the essential notion of "gap" in the studies of relative clauses. Following Creissels' (Creissels, Denis. 2006. Syntaxe generale: une introduction typologique. Paris: Hermes; Creissels, Denis. 2019. Remarks on the typology of noun-modifying clause constructions. Paper presented at the Conference of Complex Sentences, Central China Normal University, 26-29 July) discussion, we argue that there are at least three types of gaps in terms of their respective compositions, namely the gap corresponding to a zero-marked constituent, the gap corresponding to a case-marked ...
