traditionally common in English but has over time become more productive. Productive incorporation involves a singular noun with no determiner, quantifier or adjunct. Noun incorporation forms a new verb through lexical compounding. The noun brings a recognizable concept that alters the semantics of a verb. This is known as an incorporation complex, decreasing or increasing the verb valency. In English, it is more common for an argument or an actant to be incorporated with the predicate, which results in additional connotation or metaphoric meaning, e.g., to house-hunt. Although often making the semantics more complex, it simplifies the syntax of the sentence by incorporating the actant-sender house. English uses only lexical compounding, not composition by juxtaposition nor morphological compounding. Lexical compounding occurs for an entity, quality or activity that deserves its own name, e.g., mountain-climbing. If mountain-climbing were not an institutional activity, the language would be less likely to recognize. To be incorporated into a host verb, the noun's syntactic features get dropped. English also uses conversion, forming denominal verbs. The incorporated actants do not possess a separate syntactic position in the verbs. The following illustrates the three sources of incorporation in English with corresponding examples: In the examples above, the incorporated actant possesses a separate syntactic position in the verb. Hungarian Hungarian is an Uralic language in which many different types of noun incorporation occur. Hungarian's linguistic typology is agglutinative, meaning that the languages have words that consists of more than one morphemes. Hungarian combines "bare noun + verb" to form a new complex verb, and this would correspond to Mithun's first type of NI, lexical compounding. Phonologically, the V and N are separate words, but in syntactically, the N loses its syntactic status as the argument of the sentence, and VN unit becomes an intransitive predicate. This is demonstrated in the examples below: To be clear, to 'house-build' is not the same as to 'build a house.' 'house-building' is a complex activity and a unitary concept, and this is applied to other examples as well. The object argument of the underlying verb may be satisfied by the bare noun, but the bare noun does not act as an argument of a sentence like it usually would. In Hungarian, for examples such as one mentioned, the incorporating verb must be imperfective and the complex verb formed from it always must be intransitive. In Hungarian, incorporated nominals may be morphologically singular