Table lamp – lamp for tables

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World peace – peace all over the world

silver box – a box made of silver

table legs – the legs of the table

river sand – sand from the river

school child – a child who goes to school

The grammatical relations observed in NPs with pre-posed adjuncts may convey the following meanings:

1) subject-predicate relations: weather change;

2) object relations: health service, women hater;

3) adverbial relations: a) of time: morning star,

b) place: world peace, country house,

c) comparison: button eyes,

d) purpose: tooth brush.

It is important to remember that the noun-adjunct is usually marked by a stronger stress than the head.

Of special interest is a kind of ‘grammatical idiom' where the modifier is reinterpreted into the head: a devil of a man, an angel of a girl.

Noun-phrases with post-posed adjuncts

NPs with post-posed may be classified according to the way of connection into prepositionless and prepositional. The basic prepositionless NPs with post-posed adjuncts are: Nadj. – tea strong, NVen – the shape unknown, NVing – the girl smiling, ND – the man downstairs, NVinf – a book to read, NNum – room ten.

The pattern of basic prepositional NPs is N1 prep. N2. The most common preposition here is ‘of' – a cup of tea, a man of courage. It may have quite different meanings: qualitative- a woman of sense, predicative – the pleasure of the company, objective – the reading of the newspaper, partitive– the roof of the house.