The Guardian editorial headline is viewed as a two-component structure
punctuated with colons in which the first part names the topic and the second
one provides its comment. The article examines the frequency and diversity of
eight noun phrase patterns and gives structural and functional analysis of their
constituents. The author studies how categorial features of nouns, adjectives,
and prepositions manifest themselves on a phrase level. Three types of semantic
relations between noun-noun components are defined. Two more aspects under
consideration are complexity and coordination in noun phrases.