aspectualize

Verb

aspectualize (third-person singular simple present aspectualizes, present participle aspectualizing, simple past and past participle aspectualized)

1. To convert into or treat as an aspect.
   • 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.1971, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.), Issues in Human Development, page 120
   • 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.1992, B. Nelson, Naturalism in the European Novel: New Critical Perspectives, page 85
2. To divide into multiple aspects.
   • I argue, in the next chapter, that semantic networks allow us to aspectualize alethic modalities.2002, Jean-Pierre Malrieu, Evaluative Semantics: Cognition, Language and Ideology, page 159
   • In accordance with their divided "specialities" the social sciences divisively aspectualize the "caste problem".2014, D. Venkat Rao, Cultures of Memory in South Asia, page 311
3. To impart a particular aspect to a verb.
   • 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...1997, Proceedings from the Main Session of the Chicago Linguistic Society, volume 33, page 206
   • Start and serves purely to aspectualize the verb of the second conjunct, much as ginan 'begin' in Old English as noted by.2002, Joan L. Bybee, Michael Noonan, Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse, page 152
4. To use as an implementation for aspects.
   • The mixin and aspect code generators in JULIA provide a lightweight, flexible yet efficient means to aspectualize components.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
   • Many works are dedicated to aspectualize component models.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...