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 ...
The concept 'agentless' refers to the use of impersonal constructions—passive voice, nominalizations, zero-person construction, and iterative verbs— which all imply having no control over the described actions. 'Agentless talk' is viewed in this paper as a strategy to escape full personal ...