On the basis of the accomplished work on decategorization and noun decategorization made by many researchers, the thesis makes a further and careful survey and analysis of the noun decategorization.

This shows that the nominal category is prot.

Enlightenment of categorization and decategorization to ESL vocabulary teaching;

Making use of prototype theory and decategorization theory,this article compares verb-ed form with verb,adjective and preposition in semantic and lexical function.

This paper reports on a study that aims to expound the metonymy mechanism in linguistic decategorization.

This paper,based on a structural comparison between Chinese nominal categories and English nominal categories,sheds light on the governing structure displayed by Chinese nominal categories,which are specifically instantiated by such relations as hyponymy,meronymy,and others.

Research on verb subcategorization and its acquisition has achieved a lot for single languages,such as English and Chinese,whereas the cross-lingual subcategorization demands more systematic efforts.

Reasonable formalization of verb subcategorization will conduce to the logical and computational processing of linguistic information,thereby facilitating the acquisition and application of verbal lexicon.