adjectival passives in hebrew: evidence for parallelism between the adjectival and verbal systems

this article focuses on hebrew adjectival passives, showing that, as was claimed for other languages, the class of adjectival passives in hebrew is not homogenous, but rather consists of two sub-classes. former attempts to capture the non-homogenous nature of the class of adjectival passives in different languages relied mainly on the existence versus absence of an event in their interpretation. in contrast, i argue that the criterion distinguishing the two sub-classes of adjectival passives in hebrew is the presence versus absence of an implicit agent or cause argument.