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This paper contributes to our understanding of countability in two ways. First, I derive the various mass and count readings from the interaction between two syntactic features, viz. [Div] (which creates countable items, cf. Borer ) and [Size] (which creates units). Second, I show how crosslinguistic variation in the expression of countability can be reduced to whether [Div] and [Size] each head their own projection or are combined on a single syntactic head (cf. Thráinsson ; Bobaljik and Thráinsson, Syntax, 1: 37-71, ). Finally, I discuss the various Germanic morphemes that can realize the [Size] feature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]