I Incorporate Nouns of Various Structural Positions and Thematic Roles, Therefore I Am (The Verb)

The aim of this article is to present an overview of noun-incorporating verbs in Romanian, and to test whether incorporation applies not only to Themes and complements, but to nouns bearing a variety of theta-roles and occupying various structural positions, including the specifier position. In our attempt to test this, we will look at examples with noun- incorporating verbs from English and Romanian, showing that although the data supports the idea that a variety of theta-roles can get incorporated, it does not seem to equally support the idea that nouns occupying any structural position can be incorporated.