subcategorization
Verbs selecting arguments
Subcategorization is a linguistics term for how verbs select the grammatical structures that accompany them.
Some verbs require a direct object (She hit the ball), others take a clause (He thinks that she's right), and some need no complement at all (The baby slept).
These requirements are the verb's subcategorization frame—its grammatical appetite.
Atom's bonding capacity
- argumentReasoned case or dispute
- complementWhat makes complete
- transitivityRelation that chains through
- intransitiveVerb requiring no object
adjunct · predicate · restriction · obligatory · optional · frame · lexical · entry
Barrier separating spaces
- segmentationDivision into sections
- subdivisionPortion of something larger
- subsectionDivision within a division
- demarcationFormal boundary setting
splitting · branching · nesting · breakdown · differentiation · refinement · granularity · subgrouping
valency
Atom's bonding capacity
- argumentReasoned case or dispute
- complementWhat makes complete
- transitivityRelation that chains through
intransitive · adjunct · predicate · restriction · obligatory · optional · frame · lexical · entry · verb
partition
Barrier separating spaces
- segmentationDivision into sections
- subdivisionPortion of something larger
- subsectionDivision within a division
demarcation · splitting · branching · nesting · breakdown · differentiation · refinement · granularity · subgrouping · parsing
hierarchy
Ranked authority structure
- classificationSystematic grouping by traits
- groupingArrangement by shared traits
- typologyClassification by shared traits
nomenclature · genus · species · family · order · class · phylum · kingdom · domain · systematics
- Chomsky linguisticsuniversal grammar, merge, move, minimalist program, Noam Chomsky
- syntaxsentence, verb, noun, adjective, adverb
- verb grammarconjugation, tense, verb form, infinitive, verb tense
subcategorizationgeneralization
Deriving principles from examples
category, categorize, categorical, categorization, categories, categorized, categorically, subcategory, uncategorized