Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru & Ion Giurgea (§ 1), Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru, Ion Giurgea & Ruxandra Vişan (§ 2) is chapter discusses DPs of the form N1–de (‘of’)–N2 in which N2 behaves as the ‘semantic head’of the DP. ese constructions are also known as binominal constructions. ere are two major types of binominal construction. In the rst one, N2 is a plural or mass term, and N1 denotes a quantity of N2 or a unit constituted out of N2 (as its substance/material parts or individual parts). We will refer to this type as the classi er construction and to N1 as classi er. In this construction, N1 is relational, selecting for a mass or plural NP (it takes a massive or plural property as its argument).(1) a. o sticlă de vin a bottle of wine b. un soi de insecte a sort of insects

In the second type, N1 expresses a quality of the entity referred to by the DP. is quality corresponds to a subjective evaluation of the entity by the speaker. We will refer to this construction as the qualitative construction, and to N1 as a qualitative noun: