Modal and Temporal Aspects of Habituality

Nora Boneh; Edit Doron

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199544325.003.0016

Modal and Temporal Aspects of Habituality

Nora Boneh^*
, Edit Doron

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Linguistics

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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
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	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199544325.003.0016
State	Published - 1 May 2010

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Name	Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics
Volume	27

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© 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

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