In this presentation, I investigate properties of two categories of bare singular nouns in Persian and show that they display very distinct behavior in terms of degree of referentiality, interdependence with the verbal element, modification, and case-assignment possibilities. I present evidence that Noun Incorporation does not hold for Persian bare noun + V constructions and Pseudo-Noun Incorporation is not needed (reject on economy principles) . I then argue for a framework where the nominal and verbal domains are projected in parallel, which allows us to derive the characteristics observed of N+V constructions from the structure of (i) the Nominal element, and (ii) the Structural relation of the nominal to the vP domain .

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