Re: Mass/group/count noun terminology question
From: | Muke Tever <hotblack@...> |
Date: | Friday, February 13, 2004, 18:15 |
E fésto Trebor Jung <treborjung@...>:
> Is there some way to refer to mass/group/count nouns collectively? It's
> too long to write it all out a lot, so I was just wondering is there
> some single word to describe this feature of nouns?
"mass" and "count" are grouped under "countability".
"group" (collectives, I suppose) are sposta be a different feature, I
think, though they could be probably referred to as 'variably countable',
i.e. mass or count, depending.
*Muke!
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