See subcategorization on Wiktionary
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{ "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms prefixed with sub-", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "sub", "3": "categorization" }, "expansion": "sub- + categorization", "name": "prefix" } ], "etymology_text": "From sub- + categorization.", "forms": [ { "form": "subcategorizations", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "~" }, "expansion": "subcategorization (countable and uncountable, plural subcategorizations)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "glosses": [ "Placing something into a subcategory." ], "links": [ [ "subcategory", "subcategory" ] ], "tags": [ "countable", "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations", "en:Grammar" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 7, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 365:", "text": "It seems a simple enough matter to extract a general principle of subcategorisation out of (81), along the lines of:\n (82) SUBCATEGORISATION PRINCIPLE\n (82) Any lexical item of category X will be subcategorised with respect\n (82) to the range of idiosyncratic Complements (i.e. sister constituents)\n (82) which it permits within the (minimal) X-bar containing it\n The subcategorisation frame for X will simply be an unordered list of the sets of categories which X permits as its Complements: we assume that the relative ordering of X and its Complements will be determined by independent principles (e.g. the HEAD FIRST PRINCIPLE).", "type": "quote" } ], "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." ], "links": [ [ "grammar", "grammar" ], [ "complement", "complement" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(grammar) 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" ], "topics": [ "grammar", "human-sciences", "linguistics", "sciences" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "subcategorisation" } ], "wikipedia": [ "subcategorization" ], "word": "subcategorization" }
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