... fundamental difference between nouns and other lexical categories im-mediately explains one of the salient morphological distinctives of nouns, thefact that nouns often inflect for number (singular ... course, number morphology (and numerals) is not possible with all nouns in English andsimilar languages, only with the count nouns. Mass nouns also have a criterion of identity,however, and there ... majority – allow at leastsome nouns to be used as arguments even without an overt determiner. Evenin English, this is possible with plural count nouns and mass nouns (I sawtrees / grass in...