One Operator or Two? Generic and Habitual "Characterizing" Sentences in ASL
Ronnie Β. Wilbur · Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System) · 2016
Generic NPs are marked with "brow raise". Habituals are marked with lexical TEND and/or aspectual reduplication for verbs. GEN is a dyadic operator with brow raise on its restriction. In contrast, HABITUAL is a monadic operator locally scoping on the verb. Treatment of these together under the heading "characterizing sentences" obscures necessary distinctions.