Lexical Collectives

Most languages have some words that are collective by definition, i.e., "pork," "fowl," "garbage," "rubbish," and the names of most fluids in English. Words like this are always uncountable. Many otherwise countable words can be expressed in a collective sense; this is especially true of food in English; however, the amount can be specified through the use of a collective modifier ("much/a lot of," "a little") or a unit ("piece," "molecule," "pound").