NOUNS WITH APPOSITIONAL OF COMPLEMENTS AND PSEUDO-PARTITIVE NP'S

This article discusses the structure and derivation of nouns with the so-called appositional of complements (NA constructions) such as the angel of a girl and of pseudo-partitive NP's such as a bunch of flowers. The correct structure which should be assigned to the NA construction is proposed. It is claimed that a derived phrase structure rule is involved in its derivation. It is argued that the typical pseudo-partitive construction is derived by a syntactic reinterpretation rule and that it has a dual structure: i.e., it simultaneously possesses both an original base-generated structure and a derived (reinterpreted) pseudo-partitive structure. Deletion and anaphora are sensitive to the former structure and movement to the latter.