[Lingtyp] passive and tense

[Ksenia Shagal]

Quite in line with Martin's work (1994), I discussed this (to a certain
extent) in relation to asymmetry in participial systems. Participles
specializing in S/A relativization (active) often refer to habitual events,
while participles specializing in P(/S) relativization (passive or
"absolutive") are mostly perfective or resultative. This seems relevant,
since participles are a well-known source of ergativity in independent
clauses, and in some languages they are involved in the formation of
passive constructions. This topic is touched upon in sections 3.3.5, 7.2.1
and 7.5.2 of both the dissertation and the book:

Shagal, Ksenia. 2017. Towards a typology of participles. Helsinki:
University of Helsinki doctoral dissertation. (
https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/177418/Towardsa.pdf)
Shagal, Ksenia. 2019. Participles: A typological study. Berlin: Mouton de
Gruyter.

Best wishes,
Ksenia

On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 9:13 PM Peter Arkadiev <peterarkadiev at yandex.ru>
wrote:

> 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
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