'V into n' - Construction 7
| Name: | the turn into construction |
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| Description: | An entity changes to become something else. |
| Verbs: | amalgamate, ball, bloom, blossom, broaden, build, change, coalesce, condense, convert, curl, decompose, degenerate, develop, erupt, escalate, evolve, fizzle, form, gel, terminate, grow, merge, metamorphose, mushroom, mutate, ossify, segue, shade, transmute, turn, blow up, curl up, shape up |
| Example: | Though the tenants didn't like living there, they grew into a community in the course of their campaigns. (BNC) |
| Membership: | figurative; change state |
| Semantic fields and roles: |
Field: Equivalence.
Roles: NP1: Carrier; NP2: Attribute
Field: Change. Roles: NP1: Affected; NP2: Outcome |