In Mukri Kurdish, Targets (e.g., Goals of MOTION verbs, Recipients of GIVE verbs and Addressees of SAY verbs) can appear inside the verbal complex, which is referred to as the ‘incorporated position’. The characteristics of this special word order are analyzed based on fieldwork and published data of narrative free speech as well as experimental crowdsourced data (since 2016). Through corpus analysis, I examine morphosyntactic, semantic, discoursepragmatic and cognitive factors that trigger word ordering. The results show that the incorporated position in Mukri is different from other positions in terms of syntactic dependency length, animacy and adjacency of verb + non-verbal elements. Nevertheless, the incorporated position can be seen as a variant of the preverbal position.