English Explanatory Dictionary

subcategorization

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Placing something into a subcategory.
  2. The practice of specifying what types of complements a word may take when that word acts as the head of a phrase of a certain category; this specification restricts the wordʼs category, making it smaller, hence a “subcategory” of the wordʼs category.

Word forms

subcategorization subcategorizations subcategorisation

Etymology

From sub- + categorization.

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