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Agentless passives in modern Hebrew

Agentless passives in modern Hebrew Abstract It is generally claimed that three of the seven morphophonemic verbal patterns in Modern Hebrew have the function of expressing passive voice. This analysis, however, involves several problems, notably the fact that constructions with these patterns in most cases resemble impersonals, rather than passives. This is because they are mostly Agentless, and in the rare cases when they do admit an agent, it is for pragmatic rather than syntactic reasons. In this paper I will argue that this fact, as well as several other phenomena involving these three verbal patterns, can lead us to the conclusion that the constructions in question, and the verbal patterns, are in fact not passive. I will also suggest an alternative description involving detransitivization, and on this basis will suggest an alternative derivation for the verbal patterns. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Taylor & Francis

Agentless passives in modern Hebrew

Junger, J.
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International , Volume 20 (1-2): 25 – Jan 1, 1987
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Agentless passives in modern Hebrew

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Abstract It is generally claimed that three of the seven morphophonemic verbal patterns in Modern Hebrew have the function of expressing passive voice. This analysis, however, involves several problems, notably the fact that constructions with these patterns in most cases resemble impersonals, rather than passives. This is because they are mostly Agentless, and in the rare cases when they do admit an agent, it is for pragmatic rather than syntactic reasons. In this paper I will argue that...
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1949-0763
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10.1080/03740463.1987.10412250
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Abstract

Abstract It is generally claimed that three of the seven morphophonemic verbal patterns in Modern Hebrew have the function of expressing passive voice. This analysis, however, involves several problems, notably the fact that constructions with these patterns in most cases resemble impersonals, rather than passives. This is because they are mostly Agentless, and in the rare cases when they do admit an agent, it is for pragmatic rather than syntactic reasons. In this paper I will argue that this fact, as well as several other phenomena involving these three verbal patterns, can lead us to the conclusion that the constructions in question, and the verbal patterns, are in fact not passive. I will also suggest an alternative description involving detransitivization, and on this basis will suggest an alternative derivation for the verbal patterns.

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Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 1, 1987

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