Countification
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Countification is a noun meaning (rare, linguistics) The conversion of a noncountable noun to a countable noun form.
Meaning
(rare, linguistics) The conversion of a noncountable noun to a countable noun form.
Example Sentences
The countification of e-mail mirrors some other recent developments in tech-talk.
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."
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).
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cocompounding, converbialization, incorporation, subcompounding, collocation, composition.
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