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L15 Sub-cat frames or vibhakti charts Verb: Subcategorization Frame or Vibhakti Chart o There are other kinds of verbs besides intransitive, transitive, and bitransitive, which take mandatory arguments with fixed prepositions. + Ex. Verb go: Ram went to school - 'go' takes: subj, PP-with-TO-preposition * Above called subcategorization frame for 'go'. - Subcat frame of 'go': subj, PP-with-TO-preposition + Ex. Verb ask: Ram asked Mohan to go. - ASK subcat frame: subj, obj, infinitive-verb o Vibhakti: Positions such as subj, obj, obj2 are vibhaktis. - Prepositions are vibhaktis (like post-positions in Hindi) - Thus, subcat frame gives info about the vibhaktis a verb takes. - Subcat frames are vibhakti charts o Subcat frames or vibhakti charts useful in finding out whether a sentence grammatical o Subcategorization frames for verbs can be prepared: - Manually, or through - Machine learning from corpus * Number of verbs in a language relatively limited: few thousands (Contrast with nouns in a language: tens of thousands)..........................................NEXT PREVIOUS INDEX