of, pertaining to, or producing a particular aspect or aspects
2.
used as or like a form inflected for a particular aspect
Word origin
[1645–55; ‹ L aspectu-, s. of aspectusaspect + -al1]This word is first recorded in the period 1645–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cruise, elastic, soup, swab, vibration
Examples of 'aspectual' in a sentence
aspectual
The linked members can further be classified into aspectual (perfective/imperfective) pairs.
Maarten Janssen, Olga Borik 2012, 'A database of Russian verbal aspect', Oslo Studies in Languagehttps://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/osla/article/view/169. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The superlexical prefixes are like adverbs or auxiliary verbs, having aspectual and quantificational meanings.
Peter Svenonius 2005, 'Slavic prefixes inside and outside VP', Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguisticshttps://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/68. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This article offers a reflection on the relation between aspectual properties and certain complement verbs.
Dorota Sikora 2015, 'Compléments aspectuels et verbes De manière de déplacement en français: entre bornageet télicité', Cognitive Studies | Études cognitiveshttps://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/cs-ec/article/view/957. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
They convey an aspectual or modality reading.
Marleen van de Vate 2008, 'I músu fu woóko taánga: Restructuring in Saamáka', Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguisticshttps://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/142. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The syntax of verb classes influences the early aspectual interpretation.
Paolo Lorusso 2015, 'Auxiliaries and Verb Classes in Child Italian: A Syntactic Analysis of the Developmentof Aspect', Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientalihttp://www.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-qulso/article/view/16516. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Adverbs and adverbial particles provide complementary aspectual-temporal information.
Christine Cuet 2017, 'Acquisition du français par les Chinois', Recherches en didactique des langues et des cultureshttp://journals.openedition.org/rdlc/1532. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Moreover, it presents new evidence showing that certain interrogatives can take “degraded” aspectual forms, which are characteristic of subordinate clauses.
Alejandra Aranda Herrera 2013, 'Interrogatives in Carapan Purepecha', Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de Méxicohttps://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/5. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Unergative and unaccusative verbs differ in terms of their aspectual properties with the unergative being [-telic], and unaccusative[+telic].
Vasiliki Koukoulioti, Stavroula Stavrakaki 2014, 'Tense and aspect in aphasia and semantic dementia', Frontiers in Psychologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2014.64.00025/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Further, a few collexemes revealing posture verb bleaching are discovered, showing how aspectual grammaticalization may develop.
Torodd Kinn, Kristian Blensenius, Peter Andersson 2019, 'Posture, location, and activity in Mainland Scandinavian pseudocoordinations', CogniTexteshttp://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes/1158. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Our semantic notation distinguishes quantificational meanings of names and predicates, and indicates aspectual and temporal meanings of verbs.
Violetta Koseska-Toszewa 2015, 'About Certain Semantic Annotation in Parallel Corpora', Cognitive Studies | Études cognitiveshttps://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/cs-ec/article/view/775. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)