Based on the literature on prepositions (Lyons 1986;Barker 1998;Ionin, Matushansky, and Ruys 2006) and our own observations, the preposition of/de in both root and synthetic nominal phrases may have a functional or a semantic role, acting as a linking device with no apparent semantic content, or with a meaning of its own.
for the interpretation of these constructions a system must rely on the meaning of preposition and the meaning of the two constituent nouns in particular, and on context Table 7 Mapping between the set of 22 semantic classification categories and the set of English and Romance syntactic constructions on the CLUVI corpus.