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In spite of its usefulness, the simple dichotomy of count and mass nouns has been challenged because each category of nouns appears to be divided further via semantic properties. I crtically review previous analyses including Chierchia (2010), Rothstein (2010), Landman (2011), and Henderson (2012). Adopting Landman (2011)'s notion of neatness, I propose that count nouns as well as mass nouns are divided by neatness. Based on the revised notion of countability, I suggest that grove-type group nouns are mess count nouns while committee-type group nouns are neat (count or mass) nouns. I also show that the notion of neatness is useful to identify similarities found in committee-type group nouns regardless of their countability and differences between committee-type and grove-type group nouns in spite of the same countability.
