'V n from n' - Construction 19
| Name: | the tell one thing from another construction |
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| 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 |