Victoria Noble
linguisvic.bsky.social
Victoria Noble
@linguisvic.bsky.social
🖤 Semantics/Syntax interface
🖤 Mass/Count, Collectives/Singulatives,
🖤 Welsh, Arabic
🖤 PhD: University of York
🖤 Views my own.
🖤 She/her/hers.
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October 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Linguistics in the wild on Reddit!

This phenomena comes under the general study of nominal flexibility. Often referred to as “grinding”, when a singular count noun in English has no article (a), this leads to a “stuff” reading. Compare (1), which is grammatical:

1. There is dog all over the road!
May 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM