37.490, Books: A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions: Gregersen and Hengeveld (eds.) (2026)

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Date: 03-Feb-2026
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions: Gregersen and Hengeveld (eds.) (2026)


Title: A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions
Series Title: Typological Studies in Language   136
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl.136

Editor(s): Sune Gregersen; Kees Hengeveld

eBook ISBN:  9789027244260 Pages:  397 Price: Europe EURO 135.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027244260 Pages:  397 Price: U.K. £ 113.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027244260 Pages:  397 Price: U.S. $ 176.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027231994 Pages:  397 Price: Europe EURO 135.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027231994 Pages:  397 Price: Europe EURO 143.10
Hardback ISBN:  9789027231994 Pages:  397 Price: U.K. £ 113.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027231994 Pages:  397 Price: U.S. $ 176.00

Abstract:

Habitual constructions, such as those based on 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 meanings which differ in
their scopal position within the clause. The volume contains a
detailed account of habitual meaning from the perspective of
Functional Discourse Grammar as well as in-depth empirical studies of
habitual constructions in ten languages: Coptic, Plains Cree, Dolgan,
Ancient Greek, Kwaza, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, and
Spanish. It will be of interest not just to specialists of these
languages, but to anyone working on habituality and other aspectual
categories in the languages of the world.

Written In: English (eng)



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