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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Yes, I found this discussed by Comrie in 1981, and discussed it myself in 1994:<br>
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<div class="csl-entry">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 class="csl-entry">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.
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.27.08has,
https://zenodo.org/record/227097">
doi:10.1075/tsl.27.08has</a>. (<a href="http://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.27.08has,
https://zenodo.org/record/227097">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:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""><span style="color:#222222">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:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""><span style="color:#222222">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:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""><span style="color:#222222">Sergey</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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Martin Haspelmath (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:haspelmath@shh.mpg.de">haspelmath@shh.mpg.de</a>)
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
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Leipzig University
Institut fuer Anglistik
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