5. Parts of speech subcategorisation.
Each part of speech after its identification is further
subdivided into subseries in accord with various particular
semantico- functional and formal features of the constituent words.
This subdivision is sometimes called ―subcategorisation‖ of parts
of speech.
Thus, nouns are subcategorised into proper and common,
animate and inanimate, countable and uncountable, concrete and
abstract, etc. E.g.:
Mary, Robinson, London, the Mississippi, Lake Erie – girl,
person, city, river, lake;
man, scholar, leopard, butterfly – earth, field, rose, machine;
coin/coins, floor/floors, kind/kinds – news, growth, water,
furniture;
stone, grain, mist, leaf – honesty, love, slavery, darkness.
Verbs are subcategorised into fully predicative and
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