a strategy found in complement clause constructions in which the argument structure construction associated with the complement-taking predicate (CTP) is only partially distinct from the argument structure construction associated with the complement - predicate. Example: in I made him cook dinner, the CTP made and the complement predicate cook each has its own Object (him and dinner, respectively), indicating that the argument structure constructions are at least partially distinct; but the necessarily shared participant him is expressed only once, as the Object of the CTP. A partially merged argument structure strategy is typically, but not always, associated with a deranked complement clause construction. A partially merged argument structure strategy always involves the expression of a participant in the complement as an argument phrase dependent on the matrix clause predicate – or, eventually, the complex predicate made up of the former matrix clause and complement clause predicates. (Section 18.4.1)