Debounding

Debounding

A grammatical operation in which a count entity is converted into a mass entity. For instance in the following:

I have a tomato

After my fall there was tomato all over my face the count noun tomato undergoes a debounding operation by virtue of the grammatical construction there was which serves to render tomato as a mass noun, a debounded entity. Debounding contrasts with the grammatical operation known as excerpting.

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