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Subcategorization vs Subcategorize - What's the difference?

subcategorization | subcategorize |

In grammar|lang=en terms the difference between subcategorization and subcategorize

is that subcategorization is (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 while subcategorize is (grammar) to practice subcategorization.

As a noun subcategorization

is placing something into a subcategory.

As a verb subcategorize is

to categorize more specifically by placing in a subcategory.

subcategorization

English

(wikipedia subcategorization)

Noun

  • Placing something into a subcategory.
  • (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 word?s category, making it smaller, hence a “subcategory” of the word?s category.
  • *
    • It seems a simple enough matter to extract a general principle of subcategorisation' out of (81), along the lines of:
    (82)      SUBCATEGORISATION PRINCIPLE
    (82)      Any lexical item of category X will be subcategorised with respect
    (82)      to the range of idiosyncratic Complements (i.e. sister constituents)
    (82)      which it permits within the (minimal) X-bar containing it
    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).

    subcategorize

    English

    Verb

    (subcategoriz)
  • To categorize more specifically by placing in a subcategory.
  • (grammar) To practice subcategorization.
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    • As we see from the examples in (55):
    (55) (a)      John will put [NP the car''] [PP ''in the garage'']
    (55) (b)     ?John will put [NP ''the car'']
    (55) (c)     ?John will put [PP ''in the garage'']
    (55) (d)     ?John will put
    the Verb ''put'' subcategorizes (i.e. ‘takes?) obligatory NP and PP complements (to simplify exposition here, we ignore the fact that the subcategorization properties of ''put     may be predictable from its thematic properties, and from general word-order principles such as the STRICT ADJACENCY CONDITION).