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In this article I analyze English binominal NPs of the form  the N of a(n) N  and describe them as instances of esphoric NPs, i.e. NPs involving a forward phoric relation. Halliday &amp; Hasan (1976) and Martin (1992) have put these NPs on a par with definite NPs containing restrictive modifiers (e.g.  the party in power, the longest stretch ); I argue instead that NPs of the type  the N of a(n) N  are fundamentally different from the other types examined by Halliday &amp; Hasan and Martin in that they designate two discourse referents rather than only one. I substantiate this claim with evidence retrieved from the COBUILD  Bank of English  corpus. My proposal is that esphoric NPs represent the cataphoric variant of a phoric relation which had traditionally been defined only in anaphoric terms, namely  bridging . I thus analyze esphoric NPs as realizing  forward bridging  and discuss the types of conceptual relations they code. Finally, I describe these esphoric NPs as a special type of reference-point construction (Langacker 1993) in which the normal dynamics between reference point and target are reversed: it is the first NP which is target and the second NP which is reference point.

Esphoric the N of a(n) N -nominals: Forward bridging to an indefinite reference point