This article proposes a novel account of noun incorporation in Northern
Iroquoian. It is proposed that there is no special mechanism for noun
incorporation and that this phenomenon falls out naturally from the geometry of
the phrase structure under Moro’s theory of Dynamic Antisymmetry. In a
nutshell, when the verbal head and the nominal head undergo Merge, they form a
point of symmetric c-command, which is resolved by the nominal head moving to
the specifier of the verb phrase. Further, it is proposed that, in noun
incorporation constructions with a full DP double, the incorporated noun and the
DP form a constituent, which is merged in theta-position.