Abstract
We argue that habituality is primarily a modal category, which can only indirectly be characterized in aspectual terms, depending on the particular aspectual operators at work in a given language. In languages which do not overtly contrast perfective/imperfective aspect, we identify a habitual form, morphologically and aspectually complex, which characterizes an interval in retrospect by means of an actualized habit holding throughout the interval.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Lexical Semantics, Syntax, and Event Structure |
| Editors | Malka Hovav Rappaport, Edit Doron , Ivy Sichel |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Chapter | 16 |
| Pages | 338–363 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780191720536 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780199544325 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 May 2010 |
Publication series
| Name | Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics |
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| Volume | 27 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© Editorial matter and organization Malka Rappaport Hovav, Edit Doron, and Ivy Sichel 2010. © The chapters their several authors 2010. All rights reserved.
Keywords
- English
- Habituality
- Hebrew
- Imperfectivity
- Modality
- Perspective point
- Romance
- Universal perfect
- Viewpoint aspect