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- noun rare, linguistics The conversion of a
noncountable noun to acountable noun form.
Etymologies
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count + -ification
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qroqqa commented on the word countification
The conversion of a non-count (mass) noun to a count noun, as in 'a spam', 'a porno', 'porns', 'slangs', 'another shrubbery'.
(Term used by Arnold Zwicky on Language Log 18/08/08, but attested earlier, in the Handbook of Philosophical Logic, 2002, Gabbay and Guenthner.)
August 19, 2008