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Repetitive, iterative and habitual aspectual affixes in West Greenlandic

In West Greenlandic, there are about 50 to 60 derivational aspectual affixes, and some of them have more than one meaning: a concrete meaning and a temporal meaning. The aspectual affixes are divided into quantitative aspect and phasal aspect. The phasal aspectual affixes are further divided into “inner” phasal aspectual affixes with a verb-modifying function and scope over the verb stem, and “outer” phasal aspectual affixes with a sentence-modifying function and scope over the sentence. Most of the tense affixes are polysemous and also belong to both inner and outer phasal aspects such as –ler ‘begin, be about to, near future’. Among the quantitative aspectual affixes, a group of aspectual affixes contain an iterative/habitual/repetitive meaning. Of these, the most general affix is –tar/–sar, which seems to contain iterative, habitual, generic and gnomic meanings. According to Kristoffersen, –sar has a verb-modifying function with scope over the verbal stem, and a sentence-modifying function with scope over the sentence. There are a few other aspectual affixes with meanings that suggest iteration and repeated action, such as –llattaar ‘from time to time’, –qattaar ‘repeatedly’ etc., where the meanings are more concrete, purely aspectual and seem to be only verb-modifying compared to –tar/–sar ‘habitually’, which has a more general and tense-like meaning. In this paper, I examine the contexts in which the more concrete iterative/repetitive meanings are used in comparison to the more general repetitive and habitual meanings of –tar/–sar, and the combination of –tar/–sar with other affixes of iteration and repetition.