Universal #1685

Legacy number: 1685

 Number  1680
 Original  Habitual grams tend to come from verbs meaning ‘live’, ‘know’ or ‘be used to’.
 Standardized  Habitual grams tend to come from verbs meaning ‘live’, ‘know’ or ‘be used to’.
 Keywords  aspect, habitual
 Domain  inflection
 Type  target < source
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  76 languages from the GRAMCATS database
 Source  Bybee 1994: 244

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Discussion
Notes
1. GRAMs are all forms of grammatical morphemes, including affixes, stem changes, reduplication, auxiliaries, or particles.2. Implicationally:IF there are habitual grams, THEN they are likely to have developed from verbs meaning ‘live’, ‘know’, or ‘be used to’.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. GRAMs are all forms of grammatical morphemes, including affixes, stem changes, reduplication, auxiliaries, or particles.

2. Implicationally:
IF there are habitual grams, THEN they are likely to have developed from verbs meaning 'live', 'know', or 'be used to'.