English Dictionary

universal sorter

名詞

(linguistics) A mechanism whereby uncountable nouns are made countable and abstract.

日本語の意味

（言語学）不可算名詞を数えられる形に変換し、抽象的な名詞として扱うための普遍的な仕組み

The linguist proposed a new universal sorter to account for how mass nouns become countable in different languages.

その言語学者は、不可算名詞が言語ごとに可算化される仕組みを説明する新しい普遍的な分類機構を提案した。

意味（1）

(linguistics) A mechanism whereby uncountable nouns are made countable and abstract.

The conceivability of this machine, that we might call the Universal Sorter, indicates that in principle any mass noun can be used as a count noun. Of course, it is true that a mass noun like 'wine' undergoes a shift in meaning when used as a count noun...