'V n with n' - Construction 1
| Name: | the contrast one thing with another construction |
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| 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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