Temporal anchoring of habituals

I argue that so called ‘habitual sentences’ contain an extensional HAB-operator that is different from the generic operator. It locates points of time/intervals within a larger interval characterized by a habitus that is a cumulatively quantized property of times. HAB therefore acts as a stativizer, which accounts for the combination of habitualized predicates with certain adverbials and tense forms that require homogeneity of the predicates they combine with. Quantificational adverbs like often, rarely, etc. are not overt forms of HAB. Instead, they modify its complement yielding a habitus (frequentative reading) or, on a non-habitual reading, count events (iterative reading).