Countable and Uncountable Nouns in English and Romanian.

 Chapter I. 1. Theoretical Introduction 5
1.1.Grammar Components and Units 5
1.2.Grammatical Categories Parts of Speech 7
1.3.The Gramatical Category of Number 13
1.4.The Traditional Approach to the Category of Number
with Nouns 15
Chapter II. 2. Nouns Classification 17
2.1 .The Classification of Nouns according
to the Idea of Number 17
2.2 . Number features 21
2.2.1. [±UNIQUE], [±COMMON] 21
2.2.2. [±ABSTRACT] 22
2.2.3. [±COUNTABLE] 22
2.2.4. Uncountable countable, Countable uncountable 25
2.3. Plural 26
2.4. Recategorization 27
2.5. Set 28
Chapter III 3.Number Paradigms 30
3.1. Countable Nouns 30
3.2. Plural of the Countable Nouns 32
3.2.1.Ortographic Particularities 31
3.2.2. Regular Plurals 33
3.2.3. The Plural of the Compound and their placing 34
3.2.4.Foreign Plurals 36
3.2.5.Spelling Problems 37
3.2.6. The Plural Of Collective Nouns and
their Agreememt with the Verb 38
3.3. Mass Nouns 39
3.3.1. General Classification of Mass Nouns 39
3.3.2. Mass Quantifiers 40
3.3.3. The Recategorization of Mass Terms 41
3.3.4. Lexicalized Mass Forms 45
3.3.5. Some Conclusions 45
Chapter IV. 4. Specials Plurals 46
4.1. Pluralia Tantum and Summation Plurals 46
4.2. Plurals with Different Meanings 48
4.3. Invarriable Unmarked Plurals 48
4.4. Nouns with Two Plurals Forms that have
Different Interpretations 49
Chapter V.5. Conclusions 50
Bibliography 52