Mayali (Gunwingguan, Australian) allows the agent argument of unergative verbs to incorporate (Evans 1991: 286), cited in Baker (1996: 332).In Chukchi (Chukchi-Kamchatkan), adjuncts and adverbials are freely incorporable as well as objects (Payne 1993), but see Comments.
1. Subjects of some intransitive verbs (unaccusative verbs) can be incorporated. Unaccusative verbs take a direct object argument underlyingly. Subjects of unergative verbs (agentive verbs), on the other hand, can never be incorporated. (Baker 1996: 294)2. It has been argued that languages sometimes allow the incorporation of nominals other than patients, such as instruments, locatives (Mithun 1984, see #1212, also Sapir 1911), predicative modifiers (Launey 1981: 167-169), or other kinds of adjuncts (Shibatani 1990, Spencer 1995). Baker (1996: 295), however, assumes that those types are not true instances of movement in the syntax, but rather are cases of N-V compounding formed in the lexicon.3. J. Payne (1993) sees no reason for accepting Spencer’s conclusion that incorporation in Chukchi must be lexical compounding.
1. Subjects of some intransitive verbs (unaccusative verbs) can be incorporated. Unaccusative verbs take a direct object argument underlyingly. Subjects of unergative verbs (agentive verbs), on the other hand, can never be incorporated. (Baker 1996: 294)2. It has been argued that languages sometimes allow the incorporation of nominals other than patients, such as instruments, locatives (Mithun 1984, see #1212, also Sapir 1911), predicative modifiers (Launey 1981: 167-169), or other kinds of adjuncts (Shibatani 1990, Spencer 1995). Baker (1996: 295), however, assumes that those types are not true instances of movement in the syntax, but rather are cases of N-V compounding formed in the lexicon.3. J. Payne (1993) sees no reason for accepting Spencer’s conclusion that incorporation in Chukchi must be lexical compounding.