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Everything about Subcategorization
Ability of lexical items to specify syntactic arguments
In linguistics, subcategorization denotes the ability/necessity for lexical items to require/allow the presence and types of the syntactic arguments with which they co-occur. For example, the word "walk" as in "X walks home" requires the noun-phrase X to be animate. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: SubcategorizationA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A Comprehensive Approach to the Thyroid Bethesda Category III (AUS) in the Transition Zone Between 2nd Edition and 3rd Edition of The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology: Subcategorization, Nuclear Scoring, and MoreInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: On the form and functioning of subcategorizationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Functional neuroanatomy underlying the clinical subcategorization of minimally conscious state patientsCited 207 times
- Go sideways: Valency (linguistics)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Argument (linguistics)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Placing something into a subcategory.
Noun 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.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Functional neuroanatomy underlying the clinical subcategorization of minimally conscious state patients
On the semantic content of subcategorization frames
The prediction of malignant risk in the category “atypia of undetermined significance/follicular lesion of undetermined significance” of the Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology using subcategorization and BRAF mutation results
Spanish–English L2 speakers’ use of subcategorization bias information in the resolution of temporary ambiguity during second language reading
Sense and structure: Meaning as a determinant of verb subcategorization preferences
Uncertainty and Expectation in Sentence Processing: Evidence From Subcategorization Distributions
Cortical Representation of Verb Processing in Sentence Comprehension: Number of Complements, Subcategorization, and Thematic Frames
Subcategorization of atypia of undetermined significance/follicular lesion of undetermined significance (AUS/FLUS): a study applying Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (TIRADS)
🆕 Influential since 2022
A Comprehensive Approach to the Thyroid Bethesda Category III (AUS) in the Transition Zone Between 2nd Edition and 3rd Edition of The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology: Subcategorization, Nuclear Scoring, and More
Preoperative subcategorization based on magnetic resonance imaging in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
Evangely, the subcategorization has been announced in the 2023 Bethesda system for reporting thyroid cytopathology: let bygones be bygones in thyroidology!
Subcategorization of Perineural Invasion and Its Impact on Survival in Patients with Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Clinico-cytopathological subcategorization in thyroid nodules of atypia of undetermined significance/follicular lesion of undetermined significance using the TIRADS and Bethesda classifications
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕On the form and functioning of subcategorizationRandall Hendrick · 1980
The Scope of lexical rulesMichael Moortgat, Harry van der Hulst · 1981
Universal grammar in the reconstruction of ancient languagesKatalin É. Kiss · 2005- 📕Subcategorization, constituent order and the notion "head"Gerald Gazdar
Verbal subcategorization and derivation in Singapore MandarinNg, Siew Ai. · 1997- 📕A valency subcategorization of verbs in Korean and RussianHy-Sook Jeong · 1994
- 📕Subkategorisasi verba dalam bahasa IndonesiaMuhammad Darwis · 1990
- 📕Lexical acquisition at the syntax-semantics interfaceDiana F. McCarthy · 2001
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