subcategorization

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noun
  1. 1

    Placing something into a subcategory.

  2. 2

    (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 wordสผs category, making it smaller, hence a โ€œsubcategoryโ€ of the wordสผs category.

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