subcategorization (English, noun)
expansion: subcategorization (countable and uncountable, plural subcategorizations)
Senses:
glosses: Placing something into a subcategory.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: 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.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: subcategorizations
tags: plural
form: subcategorisation
tags: alternative