What is habitual aspect?

Habitual aspect is an imperfective aspect that expresses the occurrence of an event or state as characteristic of a period of time.

• What is imperfective aspect?

Comrie 1976a 27–28

Dahl 1985 97

Hartmann and Stork 1972 21

Crystal 1987 422

Context for this page:

• Concept module: habitual aspect
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): H
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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