partitive phrase

a phrase consisting of a noun referring to a part, the preposition of and a noun referring to the whole from which it derives, ¶6-4-4, ¶11-4-5; the nominal designation of the part is a meronym, while the designation of the whole is a holonym; there are certain identifiers, adjectives, adverbs, and nouns which pronominalize to become meronyms in the p. p. construction, ¶15-1-1