'V on n' - Construction 1
| Name: | the talk on construction |
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| Description: | A person talks about a topic. |
| Verbs: | advise, comment, commentate, counsel, discourse, dwell, elaborate, embroider, enlarge, expand, generalise, harp, lecture, philosophize, pontificate, preach, pronounce, remark, report, speak, talk, touch, write, report back, sound off |
| Example: | We need not elaborate on our earlier discussion of costs… (BNC) |
| Membership: | focus ''on'; person on focus; communication |
| Semantic fields and roles: |
Field: Communication.
Roles: NP1: Sayer; NP2: Topic
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