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Subcategory vs Subcategorize - What's the difference?

subcategory | subcategorize |

As a noun subcategory

is with respect to a given category, a more narrow category.

As a verb subcategorize is

to categorize more specifically by placing in 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

    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).