THE COUNTABILITY OF ENGLISH NOUNS: CATEGORY SHIFTSZelenik, Tanja (Avtor) Plemenitaš, Katja (Mentor) nounEnglish nountypes of nounscountabilitysingular countable formsingular uncountable formplural countable formplural uncountable formThe noun is one of the most important sentence elements in grammar. Accordingly, it plays an important role. It occurs in various forms, but generally, we can say that in English language the nouns may be divided into a limited number of categories, which differ according to their meaning and grammatical use. These categories, and more specifically, the countability of English nouns based on the examples of the noun 'work' and the noun 'time', are the focus of the graduation thesis. Moreover, the aim of the thesis was to research the countability of these two nouns. In particular, the emphasis was on the point when or in which cases are the nouns uncountable and when countable; what impacts on the occurance of the shift from uncountable to countable (and vise versa); the grammatical changes and changes in meaning that follow and, nevertheless, which countability form is their basic form. After the presentation of the noun as a sentence article in the theoretical part, the noun is in empirical part analyzed based on the examples of the noun 'work' and 'time' with the help of Corpus of Contemporary American English - COCA. Based on several examples of the use of nouns 'work' and 'time', which were also obtained from the corpus, it is also possible to conclude in which circumstances are the nouns used most frequently as singular nouns or in which as plural. [T. Zelenik]20132013-05-03 10:34:11Diplomsko delo40270sl