aspectualize

Example Sentences

• "The funny part about all this is that we tend to—excuse the word—aspectualize or abstract a specific behavior, a specific response, assuming that all other responses in that class are random and, therefore, not very important."
• "By embedding signs of the perfect and perfective aspects within signs of the imperfective aspect of change, Zola not only denies chronological differences, he affirms asspectual differences. He tries to aspectualize time."
• "Conceptual indicators established in our life-history, a history of learning, aspectualize or conceptualize a current episode such that it is experienced as identical in certain aspects or sensations with some previous episode, whereby the present episode then can be pushed aside in order for the previous one to be re-lived."
• "I argue, in the next chapter, that semantic networks allow us to aspectualize alethic modalities."
• "In accordance with their divided "specialities" the social sciences divisively aspectualize the "caste problem"."
• "Thus while there is a tendency towards nativization and regularization of these borrowed verbs, by the creation of perfective forms that thereby assimilate the verb to the predominant native pattern of an imperfective and a matching, prefixed, perfective formation, so that we can generalize that speakers tend to aspectualize formally borrowed verbs, no 100 % true generalization can be made over all speakers nor over all borrowed verbs."