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sub-ˈcategory
[sub- 7 e, 9.]
A subsidiary category; a subsection of a category; spec. in Math. and Linguistics.
1909Webster, Sub-category n. 1931A. Pope Introd. Lang. Drawing & Painting II. iv. 63 It is well to stop in the joyous enthusiasm of thinking out new categories and subcategories. 1949Koestler Insight & Outlook iv. 37 First, bisociation is not the same thing as ambiguity; ambiguity is merely a subcategory of it. 1956R. Redfield Peasant Soc. & Culture 24 Typologies of Latin-American cultures or of the peasant subcategory of such cultures. 1972A. G. Howson Handbk. Terms Algebra & Anal. xix. 98 Hence, Ab is a functor from G to the subcategory of Abelian groups and homomorphisms. 1982Sci. Amer. Mar. 91/1 He divided the galaxies into two main classes, ellipticals and spirals, with several sub⁓categories.
Hence sub-ˈcategorize v. trans., to place in or divide into sub-categories; ˌsub-categoriˈzation.
1965N. Chomsky Aspects of Theory of Syntax ii. 95 Rules..which analyze a symbol in terms of its categorial context, I shall henceforth call strict subcategorization rules. 1965Subcategorize [see pre-adjectival s.v. pre- B. 1 d]. 1971J. Anderson in A. J. Aitken et al. Edin. Stud. Eng. & Scots 69, I would like to consider some of the set of phenomena that we could reasonably require a subcategorisation of the modal verb in English to provide an explanation for. 1979Dictionaries I. 14 The initial capitals are subcategorized and provided with lower-case letters and figures. |