单词 | subcategorize |
释义 | subcategorizev. transitive. To place in or divide into secondary or subordinate categories. ΚΠ 1945 J. West Plainville, U.S.A. ii. 108 ‘Children’, in the ordinary sense, are sub-categorized into ‘small children’, including ‘tots’, ‘toddlers’, or ‘little bitty (teeny) children’ and ‘large children’. 1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax iv. 148 Verbs are strictly subcategorized into Intransitives, Transitives, pre-Adjectival, pre-Sentence. 1979 Dictionaries 1 14 The initial capitals are subcategorized and provided with lower-case letters and figures. 2010 Nature 1 Apr. 677/3 The scoring system would subcategorize characteristics such as disease type, progression and severity. Derivatives subcategoriˈzation n. the action or fact of subcategorizing something; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1948 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 13 414/2 Use of Johnson's system of sub-categorization permits direct orientation of questions concerning the patterns of living which social organization in these area types permit. 1971 J. Anderson in A. J. Aitken et al. Edinb. Stud. Eng. & Sc. 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. 2003 L. Moss What Genes can't Do iii. 81 Additional subcategorizations of the Golgi are variably distinguished by different cell biologists and for different cell types. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1945 |
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