Alternation ‘Incorporation’ (Coded)

Theme- or instrument-role noun is incorporated into a transitive verb stem, resulting in an intransitive stem. This process is highly lexicalized and only productive with a small handful of basic stems, most of which do not happen to be in the database. The verb 'eat' incorporates theme-role objects, while the verb 'hit' incorporates instrument-role NPs only.

Verb Meaning Verb form Basic coding frame Derived coding frame Occurs Comment # Ex.