Usitative

[Mia Kalish]

Hi, Everyone, 

 

 

I am interested in what people on this list working in linguistics have to
say about the Usitative. 

 

I am about to say that the usitative is a semantic function in English – as
opposed to a grammatical function in Diné Bizaad. In Diné Bizaad, the
usitative is very Bayesian, while in English, people specify with particular
words such as usual, customary. (Regularly is repetitive rather than
usitative). 

 

What would you say? 

 

 

Best, 

Mia 

 

 

 

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