countification
The conversion of a noncountable noun to a countable noun form.
Noun
- The conversion of a noncountable noun to a countable noun form.
- 1969, The Yugoslav Serbo-Croatian-English Contrastive Project With some mass and abstract nouns, "countification" is accompanied by a shift of meaning: paper (SC papir) vs. a paper (SC novine, dokument)...
- The use of A with GRAIN gives the class membership of the item and illustrates the "countification" of mass nouns, with the deletion of the understood "type(s) of." - 1995, Marilyn Martin, “Article question redux”, in...
- The countification of e-mail mirrors some other recent developments in tech-talk. - 2010 May 24, Ben Zimmer, New York Times:
Origin
From count + -ification.