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What does subcategorization mean?

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Noun
  1. Placing something into a subcategory.
  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 wordʼs category, making it smaller, hence a “subcategory” of the wordʼs category.
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