In practice, the use of them is influened by many factors, the most important is the adjective verb category, the meaning of the original verb and the context.

The paper applies the category theory of the cognitive linguistics to the classification of the English vocabulary,which can be classified into three categories-basic,super-ordinate and subordinate category words,and to the exploration of the characteristics of the basic category words-simple form;high frequency;productiveness;wide use;and metaphorical nature.

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.

But the research related Chinese researches seem still weak, working on large real corpus faced automatic acquisition methods for sentence level Chinese verb subcategorization is of great theoretical significance and practical potentiality.