<div dir="ltr">There is also a correlation noted at various places in the literature between past/perfective and ergative constructions (in languages with tense-aspect conditioned split ergativity) and the diachronic link between ergatives and passives.<div><br></div><div>Peter</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 18:33, Haspelmath, Martin <<a href="mailto:haspelmath@shh.mpg.de">haspelmath@shh.mpg.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Yes, I found this discussed by Comrie in 1981, and discussed it myself in 1994:<br>
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<div>Comrie, Bernard. 1981. Aspect and voice: Some reflections on perfect and passive. In Philip J. Tedeschi & Annie Zaenen (eds.),
<i>Tense and aspect</i> (Syntax and Semantics 14), 65–78. New York: Academic Press.</div>
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<div>Haspelmath, Martin. 1994. Passive participles across languages. In Barbara Fox & Paul J. Hopper (eds.),
<i>Voice: Form and function</i> (Typological Studies in Language), 151–177. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
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doi:10.1075/tsl.27.08has</a>. (<a href="http://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.27.08has,%0D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20https://zenodo.org/record/227097" target="_blank">https://zenodo.org/record/227097</a>)</div>
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But there must be more recent work about this as well.<br>
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Best,<br>
Martin<br>
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On 08.11.19 18:19, Sergey Lyosov wrote:<br>
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<div> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear colleagues</span></span>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Working with corpora of certain Semitic languages,
I noticed that passive verb forms are much more frequent in the past tenses than in present and future tenses. This is also my impression of various languages with which I am familiar but have not studied their verbal systems. Does such cross-linguistic feature
exist? If yes, how do we explain it?</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Best wishes,</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Sergey</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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