Syntactic subcategorization of noun+verb multiwords

It is commonly accepted that verbal idioms are predicates, i.e. have their own subcategorization (?). For support verb constructions, it is assumed that they “inherit” subcategorization from their nominal com- ponent (?). In this paper, we reexamine the subcategorization of preposition+noun+verb-multiwords, and in particular the dividing line between inheritance and idiosyncrasy. We present semi-automatic precision-oriented tools to extract relevant data from text corpora, and we inspect the first, preliminary results. From the data analyzed so far, it seems that the (semantic) dividing line between SVCs and id- ioms and the subcategorization-related one between “inheritance” and autonomous predicate status are not isomorphic, as some (non-idiomatic) SVCs can have idiosyncratic subcategorization properties.