Meaning of countification | Babel Free

Definitions

The conversion of a noncountable noun to a countable noun form.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“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."”

“The countification of e-mail mirrors some other recent developments in tech-talk.”

CEFR level