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subcategorization

noun

Etymology

From sub- + categorization.

  1. derived from κατηγορία — “head of predicables”
  2. derived from catēgoria — “class of predicables”
  3. derived from categorie
  4. derived from catégorie
  5. suffixed as categorize — “category + ize”
  6. suffixed as categorization — “categorize + ation”
  7. prefixed as subcategorization — “sub + categorization”

Definitions

  1. Placing something into a subcategory.

  2. The practice of specifying what types of complements a word may take when that word acts…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for subcategorization. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA