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In this paper, it is proposed that natural languages express two concepts of habituality: a gnomic and an aspectual concept of regular event recurrence. The two concepts are modelled as distinct habituality operators, HabMOD and HabASP, sharing a semantic core of event recurrence over a contextually long interval. The operators differ syntactically and semantically. HabMOD is an adverb which modifies VP, whereas HabASP is an aspectual head. The paper shows first that English and Modern Hebrew grammaticalize these two concepts by two verbal forms, a periphrastic form and a simple form. Secondly, the paper shows how the proposed syntactic and semantic analysis of the operators accounts for the properties of the two habitual forms in these languages. Adapted from the source document