[Lingtyp] passive and tense

[Peter Arkadiev]

I'm wondering why I haven't got Sergey's original message... And this is not the first time I only see the replies to a posting on this list without receiving the original.
To Sergey's question, Emma Geniušienė reports that in the Lithuanian texts she has analysed, the passive is more than two times more frequently used in the *present* tense than in the past, see "Passive Constructions in Lithuanian" (Benjamins, 2016), p. 141.

Best regards,

Peter

-- 
Peter Arkadiev, PhD
Institute of Slavic Studies
Russian Academy of Sciences
Leninsky prospekt 32-A 119991 Moscow
peterarkadiev at yandex.ru
http://inslav.ru/people/arkadev-petr-mihaylovich-peter-arkadiev



08.11.2019, 20:33, "Haspelmath, Martin" <haspelmath at shh.mpg.de>:
> 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. (https://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
>
> -- Martin Haspelmath (haspelmath at shh.mpg.de) Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Kahlaische Strasse 10 D-07745 Jena   & Leipzig University Institut fuer Anglistik IPF 141199 D-04081 Leipzig
> ,
>
> _______________________________________________
> Lingtyp mailing list
> Lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp