Despite a significant increase in interest over the last two decades in the English Noun Phrase, there are still many open questions and unexplored issues. The

Taking a multi-theoretical approach, this book offers the first in-depth study of the function and development of evaluative of-binomials.

"Combining both qualitative and quantitative methods and juxtaposing two linguistic theories, this study provides an account of the function and development of

English has an interesting variety of noun phrases, which differ greatly in structure. Examples are 'binominal' (two-noun) phrases ('a beast of a party'); posse