When Arguments MergeBy: Elise Newman Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs A novel theory of argument structure based on the order in which verbs and their arguments combine across a variety of languages and language families. Merge is the structure building operation in Chomskys Minimalist Program. In When Arguments Merge, Elise Newman develops a new Merge based theory of the syntax of argument structure, taking inspiration from wh questions. She uncovers new