the habitual aspect (abbreviated HAB), not to be confused with iterative aspect or frequentative aspect, specifies an action as occurring habitually: the...

(abbreviated IPFV or more ambiguously IMPV) is a grammatical aspect used to describe ongoing, habitual, repeated, or similar semantic roles, whether that situation...

habitual or extended actions in place of the Standard English inflected forms of be, such as is and are. This is referred to as the habitual aspect of...

state ("to be") in progress at a specific time: they are non-habitual, imperfective aspects. In the grammars of many languages the two terms are used interchangeably...

The habitual aspect is a form of expression connoting repetition or continuous existence of a state of affairs. In standard English, for present reference...

Aspect—the extension of the state or action in time, that is, whether it is unitary (perfective), continuous (imperfective) or repeated (habitual)....

aspect is distinguished from the imperfective aspect, which presents an event as having internal structure (such as ongoing, continuous, or habitual actions)...

event ("I helped him"). Imperfective aspect is used for situations conceived as existing continuously or habitually as time flows ("I was helping him";...

not have a habitual aspect in its own right. Other creoles have a general tendency to merge the habitual with the completive, the habitual with the progressive...

'give'). There are three primary grammatical aspects: habitual aspect, perfective aspect and progressive aspect. Periphrastic verb forms consist of two elements...