<HTML><BODY><br><br><br><br><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Dear all,</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Has anybody thought about relative frequency of passive forms being dependent on the semantic transitivity of the resprective two-place verb? In other words, does it happen that passive forms of high-transitivity verbs are more frequent in a language than passives of low-transitives? Or does it happen that certain low-transtives have troubles forming their passive?</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Thank you very much,</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Sergey</span></p><br></BODY></HTML>