'V as n' - Construction 8
| Name: | the come out as an identity construction |
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| 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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