aspectualize
English edit
Verb edit
aspectualize (third-person singular simple present aspectualizes, present participle aspectualizing, simple past and past participle aspectualized)
- To convert into or treat as an aspect.
- 1971, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.), Issues in Human Development, page 120:
- 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.
- 1992, B. Nelson, Naturalism in the European Novel: New Critical Perspectives, page 85:
- 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.
- 2005, Renate Bartsch, Memory and Understanding, page 124:
- 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.
- To divide into multiple aspects.
- 2002, Jean-Pierre Malrieu, Evaluative Semantics: Cognition, Language and Ideology, page 159:
- I argue, in the next chapter, that semantic networks allow us to aspectualize alethic modalities.
- 2014, D. Venkat Rao, Cultures of Memory in South Asia, page 311:
- In accordance with their divided "specialities" the social sciences divisively aspectualize the "caste problem".
- (grammar) To impart a particular aspect to a verb.
- 1997, Proceedings from the Main Session of the Chicago Linguistic Society, volume 33, page 206:
- 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.
- 2002, Joan L. Bybee, Michael Noonan, Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse, page 152:
- Start and serves purely to aspectualize the verb of the second conjunct, much as ginan 'begin' in Old English as noted by.
- 2008, Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss, Modality Aspect Interfaces, page 32:
- The same holds for aspect languages such as Gothic, Old English, Old High German, or Finnish, where case is used to aspectualize verbs (partitive vs. genitive).
- (programming) To use as an implementation for aspects.
- 2004, Eric Bruneton, Thierry Coupaye, Matthieu Leclercq, Vivien Quema, Jean-Bernard Stefani, Ivica Crnkovic, “An Open Component Model and Its Support in Java”, in Component-Based Software Engineering:
- The mixin and aspect code generators in JULIA provide a lightweight, flexible yet efficient means to aspectualize components.
- 2010, Abdelhakim Hannousse, Gilles Ardourel, Re/mi Douence, “Views for Aspectualizing Component Models”, in Bram Adams, Michael Haupt, Daniel Lohmann, editor, Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Aspects, Components, and Patterns for Infrastructure Software, page 25:
- Many works are dedicated to aspectualize component models.