Iterativity vs. habituality (and gnomic imperfectivity)

from the introduction: Habituality, as commonly conceived, presupposes a more or less regular iteration of an event, such that the resulting habit is regarded as a characterizing property of a given referent. The notion of habituality is thus strictly related to iterativity, although it should not be confused with it. In this paper we aim at defining the respective features of habituality and iterativity and at placing them both in the framework of the broader notion of “verbal pluractionality” on the one side, and of “gnomic imperfectivity” on the other side.