Compounding/decomposition | (1) a. wildlife television documentaries b. television documentaries about wildlife |
(2) a. chemical life-cycles b. life-cycles for chemistry | |
(3) a. physiography b. physical geography | |
Alternations affecting genitives and possessives | (1) a. Tina’s birthday b. the birthday of Tina |
(2) a. his reflection b. the reflection of his own features | |
(3) a. the Met show b. the Met’s show | |
(4) a. Russia’s Foreign Ministry b. the Russian Foreign Ministry | |
Synthetic/analytic superlative alternation | (1) a. smarter than everybody else b. the smartest |
Light/generic element addition/deletion | (1) a. boast b. speak boastfully |
(2) a. cheerfully b. in a cheerful way | |
Specifier addition/deletion | (1) a. fog b. wall of fog |
(2) a. 5 b. 5 o’clock |