Since the first feature of him is a d selectee, we can merge these two words to obtain the following VP category, where ✏ is the empty string (The reason for the commas separating the left and right dependent string components from the head string component is to allow for subsequent head movement of the latter (see Stabler (2001) The strings of the two merged elements have been here been concatenated, but this will not always be the case.
if the selected item has additional features behind its selectee, then it will need to check these in subsequent derivational steps via applications of Move.