 Huddleston &amp; Payne, in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (Huddleston &amp; Pullum (eds.), 2002, pp. 334–5, cited in Pelletier 2011 and 2012), show convincingly that such transformations are ubiquitous and do not at all support the notion that [chocolate (+MASS/-COUNT)] (‘he had a lot of chocolate’) is a different word than [chocolate (-MASS/+COUNT)] (‘he had three chocolates’). ‘Chocolate’ is polysemous, not homonymous. In addition to the lack of syntactic features to distinguish between mass and count terms, there are no inherent lexical features either.