'V n with n' - Construction 1

Name: the contrast one thing with another construction
Description: A person construes two things as being the same or different or as compatible or incompatible.
Verbs: associate, balance, bracket, compare, conflate, confuse, connect, contrast, correlate, dovetail, equate, identify, link, match, pair, reconcile, square, lump together, match up, mix up, muddle up
Example: We contrast states of classical unemployment with states of Keynesian unemployment. (BNC)
Membership: conjunction 'with'; relation
Semantic fields and roles: Field: Equivalence. Roles: NP1: Actor; NP2: Carrier1: NP3: Carrier2
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