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The paper studies the passive participle in Modern Hebrew, & argues for a systematic homonymy between the verbal & adjectival forms of the passive participle. It shows that the two forms result from two different derivations: The verbal passive participle is syntactically derived from the corresponding transitive verb, whereas the adjectival passive participle is derived lexically (from the transitive verb, but also from intransitive verbs & from nouns). One consequence of this difference in derivation is that, whereas there exists a verbal passive participle for each passive verb, the corresponding adjectival passive participle does not always exist. The paper provides a semantic aspectual characterization of those verbs for which an adjectival passive participle exists. Adjectival passive participles denote states, not events; therefore, they are derived only from verbs whose lexical meanings include a state, ie, either stative verbs (which denote a state) or dynamic verbs which denote bounded events that result in a state. 2 Tables, 33 References. Adapted from the source document