Subcategorization

[Subcategorization]] is a natural language phenomenon, which denotes the tendency of the verbs to have certain preferences regarding the arguments that they can take. For example, some verbs do not take a noun-phrase object, while some verbs do take an object, or two objects (direct and indirect). The name `subcategorization' is due to the fact that the category of verbs is divided into finer grained subcategories of different types of verbs based on the arguments they take.