What is it about?
I explain why French count nouns can be used as mass nouns in the expression of qualitative statements.
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Why is it important?
Instead of focusing on the grammatical specificities of count vs. mass nouns, I examine the role played by the construction where the count to mass conversion occurs.
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This page is a summary of: “C’est de la bombe!”, January 2012, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/cal.13.12des.
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