According to Ferguson, intonation patterns may be possible counterexamples: they do get borrowed, at least on the level of idiolects, without lexical items having previously been taken over, such as in the speech of tourists visiting foreign-speaking countries which often shows transfer of the foreign intonation pattern into native speech. Moravcsik, however, knows of no evidence to indicate that the borrowing of intonantion may precede in time the borrowing of lexical items in the context of language-to-language borrowing as well.
