The significance of の in this sentence


I've come across the title of this book:

文句の付けようがないラブコメ

And while i do understand the meaning, I don't quite get the usage of の there.
Or, in other words why it is used over を. Any help would be much appreciated.




文句の付けようがないラブコメ and 文句を付けようがないラブコメ are both fine and mean the same thing.

The former is fine simply because `verb-stem + よう` works like a noun, just as
many other words after a verb forms a noun phrase (e.g. 寿司の **食べ方** を学ぶ, お金の
**使い過ぎ** を反省する). Of course you can use の to connect two nouns.

I'm rather having trouble understanding why the _latter_ is fine at the same
time...usually we cannot modify a noun with を. Anyway, this `verb-stem + よう`
also takes を and other adverbial modifiers, too.

>   * 手の出しようがない。 = 手を出しようがない。  
>  There's nothing we can do.
>   * お礼の言いようがありません。 = お礼を言いようがありません。  
>  I can't thank you enough.
>   * 東京へ(は)行きようがない。  
>  There's no way I can go to Tokyo (due to an accident, etc).
>   * 健康に(は)暮らしようがない。  
>  There's no way I can live healthily.
>

It seems to me like `verb-stem + よう` sometimes works like a noun and sometimes
like a verb, but I don't know if this is the correct way to explain this. I
hope someone will post an authoritative reference.




文句の付けようがないラブコメ and 文句を付けようがないラブコメ are both fine and mean the same thing.

The former is fine simply because `verb-stem + よう` works like a noun, just as
many other words after a verb forms a noun phrase (e.g. 寿司の **食べ方** を学ぶ, お金の
**使い過ぎ** を反省する). Of course you can use の to connect two nouns.

I'm rather having trouble understanding why the _latter_ is fine at the same
time...usually we cannot modify a noun with を. Anyway, this `verb-stem + よう`
also takes を and other adverbial modifiers, too.

>   * 手の出しようがない。 = 手を出しようがない。  
>  There's nothing we can do.
>   * お礼の言いようがありません。 = お礼を言いようがありません。  
>  I can't thank you enough.
>   * 東京へ(は)行きようがない。  
>  There's no way I can go to Tokyo (due to an accident, etc).
>   * 健康に(は)暮らしようがない。  
>  There's no way I can live healthily.
>

It seems to me like `verb-stem + よう` sometimes works like a noun and sometimes
like a verb, but I don't know if this is the correct way to explain this. I
hope someone will post an authoritative reference.

