質問: A line (highlighted) from an anime named 「あの日見た花の名前を僕達はまだ知らない。」: めんま「めんまもじんたん好きー」 じんたん「好きだって、友だちの好きとか、それだけじゃねえからな」 めんま「わかってるよ、`お嫁さんにしたいの好きでしょ?`」 I guess「お嫁さんにしたいの好き」is said to contrast with「友だちの好き」above. However, the structure of 用言+の+好き sounds kind of uncommon to me. In most cases I would expect a 「ほど」or「くらい」instead of a「の」here. So the question is: How productive is the usage of the 「の」here? How weird are「手を握ったの親しい」「消えてもらいたいの嫌い」etc.
回答: I interpret it as that being the "kind" of fondness this person has. It might make more sense if you put quotes around it or add という. > > 「お嫁さんにしたい」の好き > > お嫁さんにしたいという好き > > > お嫁さんにしたい is being used as a phrase to describe what kind of 好き it is but not in a way that follows the normal rules of grammar, or to put it more precisely, not in a way that follows how you might expect the phrase "お嫁さんにしたい" to be used. That is to say, it's not "I like you as a friend" but rather "I like you like 'I want you to be my wife.'" Similarly, 好き is not being used in its normal sense of ~が好き but rather as a representation of the word itself. So for example, in English you can say "cats are cute," but you can also say "'cats' is a cute word" and still be correct even though you're saying "cats is." Basically these words and phrases are being nominalized and used as you would expect a noun be used.