Hab and Gen in the Expressionof Habituality
Hab and Gen in the Expressionof Habituality
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习惯性表达中的 Hab 和 Gen
DOI:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199691807.003.0006
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
1.1
通讯作者:
E. Doron
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作者:
N. Boneh;E. Doron
The term habituality is used in the linguistics literature for two different notions: an aspectual notion (Comrie 1976, Verkuyl 1995, Bonomi 1997, Xrakovskij 1997, Lenci & Bertinetto 2000, van Geenhoven 2004, Ferreira 2005), and a modal notion (Dahl 1985, Carlson 1977, Schubert & Pelletier 1987, Krifka et al. 1995, Landman 2008). Under the latter notion, habituality is sometimes viewed as a subtype of genericity, in the sense that it is gnomic and rule-like. In this paper we propose an analysis of habituality with both aspectual and modal meaning components, but we reject the view that habituality is a subtype of genericity. We represent habituality by means of an operator Hab, an intensional summation of events, which is distinct from the generic operator Gen. For the study of the different ingredients of habituality, English is a particularly wellsuited language, as it is rich in habitual forms, especially in the past tense. In (1a), the simple past tense form of the verb appears, which can be interpreted habitually, in (b-d) – two periphrastic forms with two different auxiliaries: used to and would. (1) a. In the good old days, people dressed elegantly to go to the opera. b. In the good old days, people used to dress elegantly to go to the opera. c. In the good old days, people would dress elegantly to go to the opera.