incorporation: stone throwing
A remarkable example of an English verb incorporating its object, in monitored prose: in a BBC retrospective on the Sharpeville massacre.
It is not yet clear why the police, in armoured vehicles, opened fire at approximately 1315 local time today, although it is understood some protesters had been stone-throwing.
This seems to be unique. I can find no other hits for "had been stone throwing" or the much more common "was stone throwing" that exhibit incorporation into the verb while being used as a verb. Almost all are the deverbal compound NP in "There had been stone throwing", with a few instances of noun-modifying VP (?) such as "stone-throwing children" and (with different sense/structure: nominal?) "stone-throwing distance", where the incorporation is standardly allowed by English grammar.
It is not yet clear why the police, in armoured vehicles, opened fire at approximately 1315 local time today, although it is understood some protesters had been stone-throwing.
This seems to be unique. I can find no other hits for "had been stone throwing" or the much more common "was stone throwing" that exhibit incorporation into the verb while being used as a verb. Almost all are the deverbal compound NP in "There had been stone throwing", with a few instances of noun-modifying VP (?) such as "stone-throwing children" and (with different sense/structure: nominal?) "stone-throwing distance", where the incorporation is standardly allowed by English grammar.