“…It is hardly surprising that crosscategorial correspondences have been recognized between count and noncount structures in nouns (car, mistake vs milk, information), and continuous and noncontinuous structures in verbs (know, hate, play vs arrive, die, cough) (Declerck 1979;Dahl 1981;Langacker 1987b;Talmy 1988;Jackendoff 1991;Frawley 1992;Verkuyl 1993;Depraetere 1995;Brinton 1998) and adjectives (good, long vs dead, identical) (Paradis 1997(Paradis , 2001). Count nouns, noncontinuous verbs and NONSCALE adjectives are BOUNDED, while noncount nouns, continuous verbs and SCALE adjectives are UNBOUNDED.…”