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In this article, we investigate the semantics of causal modifiers headed by vor (‘with’, ‘from’) in adjectival copular sentences with sein (‘to be’). We distinguish two readings of the causal vor-phrases: a pure causal reading as in rot vor Wut (‘red with rage’), sprachlos vor Freude (‘speechless with joy’), and a causal-local reading as in rot vor Blut (‘red from blood’) or schwarz vor Menschen (‘black with people’). Based on corpus data, we provide descriptive generalisations for the use and meaning of vor and its two readings. A uniform formal semantics analysis is presented to account for both readings, according to which the meaning of vor can be captured with a cause relation between two tropes. In the case of the causal-local reading, the causing trope is interpolated via coercion from the compositionally provided concrete object. Finally, we compare vor and von (‚from‘).