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Mass noun

In linguistics, a mass noun, uncountable noun, non-count noun, uncount noun, or just uncountable, is a noun with the syntactic property that any part and quantity of it is treated as an undifferentiated unit, rather than as something with discrete elements. Uncountable nouns are distinguished from count nouns.

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Grammatical number and physical discreteness

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Grammatical number and physical discreteness

Cumulativity and mass nouns

Multiple senses for one noun

Quantification

Conflation of collective noun and mass noun

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Mass noun

Nodes44
Edges43
Triples48
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.045455
Components1

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Mass noun

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related to External links · 17
Mass noun → Archives, Beth Levin, Conceptual Categories, Day, Gabbay, Guenthner, Handbook, Individuation, Linguistic Categories VIII, Mass, Mass Expressions, Nouns, Pelletier, Philosophical Logic, Schubert, The Mavens Word, Vol
related to Multiple senses for one noun · 9
Mass noun → Conversely, For, I'll, I'm, Many English, Substance, The, This, Two
related to Grammatical number and physical discreteness · 8
Mass noun → British English, But, Finnish, For, In, In English, Middle English, The
related to Quantification · 7
Mass noun → Fewer, For, Old English, Others, Some, This, Whereas
related to Conflation of collective noun and mass noun · 4
Mass noun → Generally, However, Some, There

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groupinstance ofcollective nouns0.80text
familyinstance ofcollective nouns0.80text
and committee are not mass nouns but are rather a special subset of count nounsinstance ofcollective nouns0.80text
Mass nounrelated to Conflation of collective noun and mass nounThere0.60section
Mass nounrelated to Conflation of collective noun and mass nounGenerally0.60section
Mass nounrelated to Conflation of collective noun and mass nounHowever0.60section
Mass nounrelated to Conflation of collective noun and mass nounSome0.60section
Mass nounrelated to External linksThe Mavens Word0.60section
Mass nounrelated to External linksDay0.60section
Mass nounrelated to External linksArchives0.60section
Mass nounrelated to External linksMass0.60section
Mass nounrelated to External linksPelletier0.60section

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