Accounts of the Count-Mass Distinction: A Critical Survey
The issue of what is usually, but also misleadingly called the count-mass distinction, i.e.the distinction between nouns that can be counted (e.g.a car, two cars, many cars) and nouns that cannot (e.g.*a sand, *two sands, *many sands, sand, much sand), has been addressed and accounted for in different ways.This paper gives a critical survey of four