תקציר:

The relatively limited number of morphological templates available in the Hebrew verb system is classified along two dimensions, agency & voice. The thematic role of the external argument determines agency: cause induces the causative template; actor, the intensive template; & agent, the simple template. Voice - active, middle, & passive - intersects with this trichotomy to produce only seven templates, as Hebrew lacks simple passive & causative middle templates. In the framework of the light-verb concepts of Kenneth Hale & Samuel Jay Keyser (1993) & Angelika Kratzer (1994), Hebrew middle & passive templates are analyzed as the morphological realization of heads introduced into the derivation to block argument insertion, whereas the intensive & causative templates are the morphological realization of actor & cause role assignments, respectively. 18 References. J. Hitchcock