A layered approach to habitual constructions /
"Habitual constructions, such as English used to and Spanish soler, are linguistic expressions denoting situations that typically occur. This volume proposes a novel approach to such expressions, arguing that habituality is not a unified semantic category, but rather a family of related meaning...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2026]
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| Series: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 136. |
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Table of Contents:
- A layered approach to habitual constructions: introduction / Sune Gregersen & Kees Hengeveld
- The habitual construction in Sahidic Coptic / Jacques van der Vliet & Ewa D. Zakrzewska
- Habitual constructions in nēhiyawēwin (Plains Cree) / Arok Wolvengrey
- The habitual construction in Dolgan / Eugénie Stapert
- Habitual constructions in Ancient Greek / Ezra la Roi
- Habitual constructions in Kwaza / Hein van der Voort
- Habitual constructions in Mandarin / Hongmei Fang
- Habitual constructions in European Portuguese / Riccardo Giomi
- The habitual construction byvalo in Russian / Egbert Fortuin & Sjaak de Wit
- Habitual constructions in Slovak / René Genis & Paula Kyselica
- Habitual constructions in Spanish / Hella Olbertz
- A layered approach to habitual constructions: typological generalizations / Hongmei Fang, Egbert Fortuin, René Genis, Riccardo Giomi, Sune Gregersen, Kees Hengeveld, Lois Kemp, Paula Kyselica, Ezra La Roi, Hella Olbertz, Eugénie Stapert, Jacques van der Vliet, Hein van der Voort, Sjaak de Wit, Arok Wolvengrey, & Ewa D. Zakrzewska.