'V n on n' - Construction 12
| Name: | the base an idea on an idea construction |
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| Description: | A person considers one abstraction to be the basis for another abstraction. The NPs following the verb and 'on' indicate the two entities. |
| Verbs: | base, build, ground, predicate, be premised |
| Example: | [They] base their poetics on a similar assumption. (BNC) |
| Membership: | figurative; relation |
| Semantic fields and roles: |
Field: Logical relations.
Roles: NP1: Correspondance-Cause; NP2: Correspondance; NP3: Correspondance
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