occurrential

English

Etymology

From occurrence.

Adjective

occurrential (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or essentiating an occurrence or occurrences; occurrent.
   • 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 269

     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,

   • 1966, Madeline Elizabeth Ehrman, The Meanings of the Modals in Present-Day American English, Mouton Publications - The University Press, page 84

     The occurrential modal may in addition show in optative expressions like [31].

   • 1975, Leon Zawadowski, Inductive Semantics and Syntax: Foundations of Empirical Linguistics, Mouton Publications - The Michigan University Press, page 153

     In 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.

   • 1936, Abram Cornelius Benjamin, The Logical Structure of Science, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company Limited Publishing - The Michigan University Press, page 160

     Perhaps 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.

   • 1996, Giovanni Adorni & Michael Zock, Trends in Natural Language Generation - An Artificial Intelligence Perspective, Springer Publishing Association, page 250

     In the first case, we then have to determine if the localization is made by a temporal constant (feature chronological) or another occurrence (feature occurrential).

   • 1971, Edgar Morin, Rumour in Orléans, Pantheon Books - The Michigan University Press, page 269

     We 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.

   • 2012, Y. King-Farlow & W.N. Christensen, Faith and the Life of Reason, D. Reidel Publishing Company - Dordrecht - Holland, page 193

     ...an occurrential hypothesis...

   • 1997, Toril Swan, Olaf Jansen Westvik, Modality in Germanic Languages: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Mouton de Gruyter - Berlin • New York, page 216

     With regard to the relative text-occurrential frequency of subjective nb, Takahashi quotes the two linguistic advisers of Bibliographisches Institut Mannheim in the early eighties.

Derived terms

• occurrentially

Anagrams

• circular note