Concept: incorporation construction

Definition

An incorporation construction is an event-denoting verb-noun compound construction in which the noun occupies an argument slot of the verb and occurs in a position where nominal patient arguments cannot occur.

Comments

The definition given here is from Haspelmath (2025: 2). ❡

Note that the term "incorporated" is sometimes also used for person forms that occur as affixes, e.g. "Anaphoric agreement markers are incorporated pronouns that fulfill the function of clausal arguments." (Siewierska 2001: 233)

Wikipedia
incorporation (linguistics)
Quotation
"In [noun incorporation], a noun stem is compounded with a verb stem to yield a larger, derived verb stem." (Mithun 1984: 847)
Sources
Siewierska 2001; Haspelmath 2025; Mithun 1984