I've been reading blogs of various conlangers who are implementing noun incorporation in their languages. My conlang Minhast also uses noun incorporation, and it's a major player in its syntactic operations.
What is noun incorporation? Well, a quick-and-dirty description is that it is a morphosyntactic operation where a noun is stripped of its inflectional morphology and compounded to a verb complex. But there is much much more to it than that.
Noun incorporation is a very complex topic, associated with the Native American languages, Paleosiberian languages, the Munda branch of the Austroasiatic language family, and New Guinea, all of which are unknown or barely known to Westerners. The majority of these languages are moribund or face extinction. These languages are typically polysynthetic as well, another characteristic that isn't found in the language "powerhouses" (e.g. English and several Indo-European languages, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, etc). These contribute to the general notion that noun incorporation is exotic.
And for the conlanger who wants to incorporate noun incorporation (sorry for the repetitiveness!) into their conlang, the first thing to do is research on the topic, and the best starting point is from the linguist Marianne Mithun. She is renowned for her book, "The Languages of Native North America", a thick tome that provides a wealth of knowledge of the grammars of the indigenous languages in North America, and tackles special topics like polysynthesis and noun incorporation, and provides overviews of these languages from Algonquin through Zuni...all in a prose accessible to a layperson. This book can be purchased from Amazon for about $50 USD as of this writing (I was lucky when I got mine, it was $30+). It might seem like a lot, but compared to many of the scholarly books that deal with polysyntheticism and noun incorporation, this is a good deal. Other books might run up to $160 USD, and there's a couple of those very pricey tomes I've been salivating over.
As of this writing, while the Wikipedia article on noun incorporation is ok for getting a general overview of noun incorporation, you're barely getting your feet wet, only your toes are touching the water. Fortunately, Mithun wrote an article, "The Evolution of Noun Incorporation", which is available FREE as a PDF, which you can download from the following link:
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/mithun/pdfs/1984%20The%20evolution%20of%20noun%20incorporation.PDF
This article is much meatier than Wikipedia's, and gives you a fuller understanding of the complexity and appreciation of the expressive richness that noun incorporation provides.
I hope you find this article helpful. Now with that said, start incorporating your nouns!
