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Subcategory vs Subcategorization - What's the difference?

subcategory | subcategorization |

As nouns the difference between subcategory and subcategorization

is that subcategory is with respect to a given category, a more narrow category while subcategorization is placing something into a subcategory.

subcategory

English

Alternative forms

* sub-category

Noun

(subcategories)
  • With respect to a given category, a more narrow category.
  • (category theory) A subclass of a category which is itself a category, whose arrows are a restriction of the arrows of the parent category, and whose composition rule is a restriction of the parent category's

    • Synonyms

    * child category

    Antonyms

    * supercategory

    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).