[Lingtyp] passive and tense

[Haspelmath, Martin]

Yes, I found this discussed by Comrie in 1981, and discussed it myself in 1994:

Comrie, Bernard. 1981. Aspect and voice: Some reflections on perfect and passive. In Philip J. Tedeschi & Annie Zaenen (eds.), Tense and aspect (Syntax and Semantics 14), 65–78. New York: Academic Press.
Haspelmath, Martin. 1994. Passive participles across languages. In Barbara Fox & Paul J. Hopper (eds.), Voice: Form and function (Typological Studies in Language), 151–177. Amsterdam: Benjamins. doi:10.1075/tsl.27.08has<http://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.27.08has,
%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20https://zenodo.org/record/227097>. (https://zenodo.org/record/227097<http://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.27.08has,
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But there must be more recent work about this as well.

Best,
Martin

On 08.11.19 18:19, Sergey Lyosov wrote:
 Dear colleagues

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?

Best wishes,

Sergey



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