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§ 3. 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 sub-
division 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. Cf.: 
Mary, Robinson, London, the Mississippi, Lake Erie — girl, per-
son, city, river, lake; 
man, scholar, leopard, butterfly — earth, field, rose, machine; 
coin/coins, floor/floors, kind/kinds — news, growth, water, furni-
ture; 
stone, grain, mist, leaf — honesty, love, slavery, darkness. 
Verbs are subcategorised into fully predicative and partially predi-
cative, transitive and intransitive, actional and statal, factive and 
evaluative, etc. Cf.: 
walk, sail, prepare, shine, blow — can, may, shall, be, become; 
take, put, speak, listen, see, give — live, float, stay, ache, ripen, 
rain; 

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write, play, strike, boil, receive, ride — exist, sleep, rest, thrive, 
revel, suffer; 
roll, tire, begin, ensnare, build, tremble — consider, approve, mind, 
desire, hate, incline. 
Adjectives are subcategorised into qualitative and relative, of con-
stant feature and temporary feature (the latter are referred to as 
"statives" and identified by some scholars as a separate part of 
speech under the heading of "category of state"), factive and 
evaluative, etc. Cf.: 
long, red, lovely, noble, comfortable — wooden, rural, daily, sub-
terranean, orthographical; 
healthy, sickly, joyful, grievous, wry, blazing — well, ill, glad, 
sorry, awry, ablaze; 
tall, heavy, smooth, mental, native — kind, brave, wonderful, wise, 
stupid. 
The adverb, the numeral, the pronoun are also subject to the corre-
sponding subcategorisations.