Mass nouns, Count nouns and Non-count nouns

In Keith Brown, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier (2005)
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I present a high-level account of the semantical distinction between count nouns and non-count nouns. The basic idea is that count nouns are semantically either singular or plural and non-count nouns are neither

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