Habituality, pluractionality and imperfectivity

Habituality, as commonly conceived, presupposes a more or less regular iteration of an event, such that the resulting habit is regarded as a characterizing property of a given referent. The notion of habituality is thus strictly related to iterativity, although the two should not be confused. In this chapter we aim to define the respective features of habit- uality and iterativity and to place them in the framework of the broader notion of “ver- bal pluractionality” on the one side, and of “gnomic imperfectivity” on the other side.