The term "incorporation" is generally used to refer to a particular type of compounding in which a V and N combine to form a new V. The N bears a specific semantic relationship to its host V-as patient, location, or instrument. [...] The activity or quality designated by the NV compound is viewed as a recognizable, unitary concept, rather than the chance co-occurrence of some action or state and some entity.
- Mithun (2004), a pag.113