In linguistics, subcategorization denotes the ability/necessity for lexical items (usually verbs) to require/allow the presence and types of the syntactic arguments with which they co-occur. The notion of subcategorization is similar to the notion of valency, although the two concepts (subcategorization and valency) stem from different traditions ...
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the pattern of complements selected by head, e.g. the verb put subcategorizes for an NP and a PP. We put the car in the garage, but not * We put the car.
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