'V as n' - Construction 8

Name: the come out as an identity construction
Description: A person asserts an identity, previously not known to others.
Verbs: come out
Example: …the women artists and writers, the politicians and trades unionists, the women who came out as lesbians, and before them the witches and the suffragettes. (BNC)
Membership: category; claiming
Semantic fields and roles: Field: Equivalence. Roles: NP1: Carrier; NP2: Attribute
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