a strategy found in complement clause constructions in which there is a single argument structure construction associated with the combination of the complement-taking predicate and the complement - predicate. Example: French J'ai fait manger le pain par le chat 'I made the cat eat the bread' has a single argument structure for the participants of the combined event of 'making eat': the causer J' 'I' is the Subject, the causee/ agent par le chat '(by) the cat' is an Oblique, and the patient of the eating event le pain 'the bread' is the Object. A merged argument structure strategy is essentially a simple argument structure construction that is found with a biclausal complement clause construction, balanced or deranked. (Section 18.4.1)