[Lingtyp] passive and tense

[Peter Austin]

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.

Peter


On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 18:33, Haspelmath, Martin <haspelmath at shh.mpg.de>
wrote:

> 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,%0D%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,%0D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20https://zenodo.org/record/227097>
> )
>
> 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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