Abstract: Verb subcategorization information, mainly coding the types of distribution of predicative features, is indispensable knowledge for further development in the field of natural language processing and thus, subcategorization lexicon construction has become more and more important for especially corpus linguistics. This study describes, our techniques and experiments on subcategorization acquisition and relevant lexicon construction for English and Chinese verbs, which actually includes 4 parts. In the first 3 parts, we will introduce our research on English subcategorization, Chinese subcategorization and English-Chinese cross-lingual subcategorization, respectively and in the fourth part some simple applications of constructed lexicons to concrete NLP tasks will be discussed.