This article argues in favor of a new type of Merge, Parallel Merge, which combines the properties of External Merge and Internal Merge. Parallel Merge creates symmetric, multidominant structures, which become antisymmetric in the course of the derivation. The main empirical goal of the article is to revive a multidominance approach to across-the-board wh-questions and to show that a number of ...

in this paper, after reviewing the classification of quantifiers, we aim toanswer the question of whether the merge position of quantifiers kheili and ba’zi is in the dp. contra moazzami (2006) and samiian (1983), we show that these quantifiers do not originate  in the dp. by appealing to the preference of merge over move and in the light of giusti (1991), we propose that these elements merge a...