Appositional structure "noun of a noun" and its translation counterparts

This thesis is concerned with the appositional "noun of a noun" construction and its translational counterparts in the Czech language. This structure is peculiar in that it exhibits asymmetry of syntactic and semantic relations. Normally the sequence "noun of a noun" would be perceived as a noun modified by a prepositional phrase (e.g. "daughter of an Englishman"), but in the target constructions of this thesis, the second noun is actually the modified element (e.g. "a giant of a man"). As the Czech language does not offer a syntactically equivalent construction, the main goal of this thesis is to analyze and statistically evaluate the ways in which the instances of this construction are translated while examining and evaluating the construction's various grammatical and semantic properties outlined in the theoretical part. The study works with a body of examples found in an excerpt from parallel corpus of works of fiction written originally in English. These examples are divided into two groups. The first group includes the instances where sequence hell of a or its alternatives heck of a and devil of a occur, while the other is formed by the remaining cases. It works on the premise, that most frequently, the translation will include either adjectival premodification or comparison. The study..