Types de noms : la question des occurrences

The goal of this article is to compare classification or classifications of nouns with the notion of occurrence. Such a comparison has never been systematically explored until now because nobody acknowledged its interest. We would like to show here, as regards to two categories of nouns, that it plays a crucial part in the categorial subdivision of nouns and that it is a precious tool to understand the full details of this subdivision. Our inquiry will be limited to countable concrete nouns and to mass nouns and it will consist in asking in what an occurrence of those two types of name consist of. Our inquiry, we will see, will reach two kinds of results: on the one hand, it will give rise to a reinterpretation or throw new light on certain facts already noticed, both as regards to nouns and determiners.