Usually means: Specification of arguments for words.
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  1. subcategorization: Merriam-Webster
  2. subcategorization: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. subcategorization: Wordnik
  4. subcategorization: Wiktionary
  5. Subcategorization: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  1. Subcategorization: Lexicon of Linguistics

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  1. subcategorization: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (subcategorization)

noun:  Placing something into a subcategory.
noun:  (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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