'V n in n' - Construction 11
| Name: | the immerse oneself in activity construction |
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| Description: | A person focuses their attention on something to the exclusion of everything else. |
| Verbs: | bury, immerse, lose, submerge |
| Example: | He now immersed himself in university life… (BNC) |
| Membership: | figurative; cognition |
| Semantic fields and roles: |
Field: Cognition.
Roles: NP1: Emoter-Actor; NP2: Emoter; NP3: Phenomenon-Topic
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