The grammaticalization of nominal type noun constructions with kind/sort of: chronology and paths of change KU Leuven
Denison distinguishes three main NP constructions with type nouns such as sort/kind/type of in Present-day English, viz. the head, postdeterminer and qualifier constructions. The latter two developed from the binominal construction in which lexically full sort/kind/type is the head followed by a second noun designating a superordinate class. In the chronology he posits the postdeterminer construction as an early reanalysis of the binominal ...