Meanings
- not comparableOf, pertaining to, or essentiating an occurrence or occurrences; occurrent.
The occurrential modal may in addition show in optative expressions like [31].
1966, Madeline Elizabeth Ehrman, The Meanings of the Modals in Present-Day American English, Mouton Publications - The University Press, page 845 more examples
This seems to indicate that there are three groups of nominalizations coming from evaluative adjectives: those belonging to the imprudencia type, having both an occurrential and a non-occurrential reading, those that behave like travesura,
2015, Jason Smith & Tabea Ihsane, Romance Linguistics 2012: Selected Papers from the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages - Cedar City, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 269In reality, what is essential for the functioning of language is not just any co-occurrential relation, or any co-occurrence, but only categorial co-occurrential relations.
1975, Leon Zawadowski, Inductive Semantics and Syntax: Foundations of Empirical Linguistics, Mouton Publications - The Michigan University Press, page 153Perhaps one may best express this by saying that concepts refer to occurrential elements of occurrential structure, while propositions refer to occurrential structures of occurrential elements.
1936, Abram Cornelius Benjamin, The Logical Structure of Science, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company Limited Publishing - The Michigan University Press, page 160In the first case, we then have to determine if the localization is made by a temporal constant (feature chronological) or another occurrence (feature occurrential).
1996, Giovanni Adorni & Michael Zock, Trends in Natural Language Generation - An Artificial Intelligence Perspective, Springer Publishing Association, page 250We are still only at the beginnings of an occurrential sociology. Here I would just like to raise two points which may be of some methodological interest.
1971, Edgar Morin, Rumour in Orléans, Pantheon Books - The Michigan University Press, page 269
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