C/M
C & M
☛ The handout for my 2001 SemFest talk on “Counting Chad”, on the count/mass distinction in English, with special reference to chad, e-mail/email, and ice plant. On the grammatical categories C, M, SG, PL, E, and I.
☛ AZ, 12/8/06: Plural, mass, collective:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003879.html
☛ AZ, 8/18/08: Countification:
☛ AZ, 10/27/08: Zero relationships:
M>C and C>M conversions
☛ 9/27/09: More sexual back-formations:
massification
☛ 8/10/10: Entheta:
M and PL
☛ 12/13/10: Porn hypallage and sex-part conversion:
☛ 1/28/11: C/M:
the Universal Grinder; functional collectives
☛ 2/21/11: More on C/M:
☛ 4/20/11: C > M conversion in the popular media:
sex-part (or body-part) conversion
☛ 5/26/11: Loinfruit:
fruit as C and M
☛ 9/19/11: software development:
software; countification
☛ 6/3/12: On the masculinity beat:
the M noun product
☛ 4/13/13: Manliness and money:
synonyms for money, both C and M
☛ 5/16/13: Manwich and Beefaroni as portmanteaus:
Manwich
☛ 7/20/13: Respecting each other:
less vs. fewer
☛ 7/26/13: ‘male anus viewed as a sexual organ’:
sex-part conversion: pussy
☛ 8/10/15: data:
PHD Comic on data
☛ 9/15/15: Substance massification on the golf course:
metonymic C>M conversions, particularly substance massification in enough club
☛ 10/18/15: Mornings and mangelwurzels:
C beet and M beetroot
☛ 10/22/15: Bread play:
M>C conversion of sourdough: family/clan name?
☛ 11/6/15: crap(s) game:
names of games are M
☛ 3/13/17: Technical terms:
collectives
☛ 5/16/17: ice plants:
☛ 5/19/17: Special counsel appointed:
M macaroni, C elbow
☛ 5/20/17: Squid Pro Quo:
calimari, M or C
☛ 10/12/17: Pizza Boy outtakes:
non-standard underwear as PL C (unmarked PL and PL-only)
☛ 10/20/17: A processed food flavor:
C and M spice
☛ 1/12/18: STIR FRYS:
stir-fry as C or M
☛ 6/28/18: Just a hijink:
class of hijinks, antics etc.
☛ 11/25/18: What do you have?:
disease names as M or C
☛ 12/13/18: Give head for Christmas:
sex-part conversion
☛ 5/21/19: homeworks:
homework as C as well as M
☛ 5/29/19: On the dog food watch:
kibble as C as well as M
☛ 6/9/19: Lemon is the vanilla of Italian ices:
C uses of ice
☛ 5/7/20: Minnesota hotdish:
M hotdish vs. C casserole
☛ 10/15/20: cubeb:
cubeb largely M, but C in sense ‘cubeb cigarette’
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