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IntroductionLnplicit in Peirce's undersanding of the semiotics of habit is a general model ortypology of iteration. Since semiosis encornpasses cognition and language(Nesher 194), Peirce's account of habit models not only verbal iteration but alsoiteration as a cognitive or conceptual phenomenon. The fact that a framework forunderstanding cognitive and linguistic iteration is inherent in the peircean habitshould hardly be surprising since Peirce intended his semiotic to be a .real scienceof sign phenomena' (Short l9gr, r97) and,his phenomenologicar categories ofFirstness, secondness, and rhirdness to be ubiquiuous and olctly observableelements (or modes of being) in the sign_perfused universe (Cp 1:p"1r" e l93l_35; 19581 1.23, 5.41, 5.IZI).

In this paper, I intend to sketch the model of iteration impricit in peirce,s dis_cussion of habit or Thirdness, or more specifically in the relations between theIevels of secondness and rhirdness witnrn a habit. In brief, peirce implies thenecessary existence oftwo poles ofiteration: iteration at the level ofsecondness,or what I will calr simpre iteratton, and iteration with respect to Thirdness, or whatI will call hobitmr iteration. Simple and habituar iteration do not represent dis_crele categories mutually exclusive ofeach other; a Peircean account ofiterationpresumes a continuum Tdg between the poles and therefore the potential ofgrowth fromonepole (simpre iterarion) to fhe other (habituat iteratioo). rnrougnthis t5,polory, I will be arguing that the two kinds of iteration are reflections of themore general distinction which peirce makes between secondness and rhirdness.

Passing from theory to practice, I will then attempt !o show the usefurness ofthe Peircean typology for mebng sense of iteratioo io nu*an conceptualization,generally speaking, and in language, in particular. In treating iteration in lan_guage' I will limit myself !o a consideration of some aspects of the behavior of averb form in czech which I have previously argued (Danaher 1995, 1996) must beunderstood, first and foremost, as a habitual verb in the peircean sense of habit.

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