Universal 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
- Counterexamples
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’.