Incorporating agents

This study examines agent incorporation, which is a highly productive phenomenon observed in transitive and unergative constructions in Turkish. We account for this piece of data through a pseudo-incorporation analysis which unifies both theme and agent incorporation under the same structure unlike the previous head-incorporation analyses. We suggest that as pseudo-incorporation does not involve head nouns but NPs, it is exempt from the constraints that govern head-movement and the choice of theta-roles for incorporated heads under head-incorporation, and thus it is technically compatible with the incorporation of any argument, including agents.