'V n from n' - Construction 19

Name: the tell one thing from another construction
Description: A person is able to see that two things are different from one another.
Verbs: differentiate, disentangle, distinguish, separate, tell
Example: He must not only distinguish behaviour from ideology… (BNC)
Membership: figurative 'from'; cognition
Semantic fields and roles: Field: Cognition. Roles: NP1: Cognizer; NP2 + NP3: Phenomenon
Field: Equivalence. Roles: NP1: Cognizer: NP2: Carrier1; NP3: Carrier2
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