aspectual

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• Linguists analyze verbs from an aspectual perspective to understand how actions are portrayed in different tenses.

• In the study of languages, aspectual distinctions help clarify how tense influences meaning.

• The point that emerges is that life is aspectual: the significance of any event or situation depends on the aspect under which it is viewed.

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• Given this plethora of stories and narratives, an objective view of the aspectual events of the storyworld is clearly going to be impossible.

  Academic text (2009)

• From her aspectual view of the storyworld, what she undeniably does know is that they have a loving, trusting relationship and that he is intelligent and reliable.

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• Put in my terms, the aspectual view of the novel's storyworld adopted by most women readers may have more in common with Clarissa's aspectual view of it than Joe's, and vice versa for male readers.

  Academic text (2009)

• Put in my terms, the aspectual view of the novel's storyworld adopted by most women readers may have more in common with Clarissa's aspectual view of it than Joe's, and vice versa for male readers.

  Academic text (2009)

• As with his urge to spice up and tell his narratives of the events in his life as comedy, he is imposing an arbitrary and aspectual framework on the inchoate flux of facts and events.

  Academic text (2009)

• I, Metatron, exist on two separate but symbiotic levels. The most familiar and accessible to humanity is as Archangel Metatron, yet on the higher level, I exist as Metatron, Lord of Light. But even this analogy cannot encompass or define my nature and is only capable of doing so in aspectual terms.

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