The phrase "about the eventuality" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific event or situation that is anticipated or possible in the future.
Example: "We need to have a plan in place about the eventuality of a sudden market downturn."
Alternatives: "regarding the possibility" or "concerning the likelihood".
But though he spends nearly every day flying and preparing for an attack against Iraq, Lieutenant Barnes backs away from questions about the eventuality of war.
We didn't think about the eventuality that the supporters and the opposing group would spark another civil war.
When the non-entity part in the constituent after -de is semantically about a specific participant rather than about the eventuality expressed by the verb or adjective before -de, the V-DE construction carries the [+Entity] feature.
When the non-entity part of the constituent after -de is semantically about the eventuality expressed by the verb or adjective before -de, we have an "eventuality-predicative V-DE construction".
I propose that, in addition to the distinction between predicative and non-predicative V-DE constructions, a further distinction can be made within predicative V-DE's according to whether the non-entity part of the constituent after -de is semantically about the eventuality expressed by the verb or adjective before -de or about a specific entity (i.e. participant).
First, as discussed with respect to Li and Thompson's (1981) "manner" interpretation, the part after -de in the so-called "manner V-DE" in fact involves an evaluative comment about the eventuality expressed by the verb or adjective immediately before de.
An entirely different approach is to introduce "eventuality" arguments into all predicates, and to regard a predication as providing a fact about the actual world only if the eventuality corresponding to that predication has been asserted to "occur" (Hobbs 2003).
Hopefully this issue will be moot, but it's never too early for Democrats to reach out to more responsible Republicans like Olympia Snowe and Dick Lugar about their willingness to support Senator-elect Franken's seating should the eventuality arise.
Maack and her team began planning for the eventuality.
For some local environmental organizations, the eventuality of a blockaded river system is unacceptable.
"How can anyone think that I should look without horror upon the eventuality of war".
