הולך רכיל – יוצא דופן – יושב ראש: המישור התחבירי והמישור הסמנטי של צירופי בינוני

This paper discusses participial headed phrases of the kind: Holex-raxil exits [from the] ״ . lit ׳ exception ׳) yoce-dofen ,(״ goes and gossips ״ . lit ,׳ gossips ׳) The paper focuses .(״ sits [at the] head ״ . lit ,׳ chairman ׳) and yoshev-rosh (״ side on several fragments from the Hebrew Language Academy’s discussions regarding two phrases: yoce-dofen and yoshev-rosh. These discussions, as well as the stances of other language experts, reflect disagreements as to the lexical status of this type of phrases, which can be regarded as either a verb phrase or a noun phrase, and, as a consequence, a controversy with respect to their plural and definite forms. In both cases, the Hebrew Language Academy recommends taking either of two ways: a combination of a verbal participial head and its complement (ha-yoshev rosh, ha-yoce dofen), or a nominal construct state (yoshev ha-rosh, yoce ha-dofen). However, with the case of the phrase orex-din the academy recommends adopting ,(״ manages [of the] law ״ . lit ) ׳ lawyer ׳ the nominal construct state strategy, contrary to previous suggestions to take the verbal strategy as well. The Hebrew Language Academy avoids setting a constant rule to apply to all types of Hebrew participial phrases, focusing only on these three phrases, thus leaving the problem unsolved. The purposes of the present paper are to shed light on these issues for s perceptions and ׳ both researchers and educators; to present the Academy s ׳ arguments with respect to participial phrases; to account for the Academy rational in discussing and deciding on normative rules; to articulate the difference between the syntactic and the semantic levels and the difference between an attributive phrase and a verbal phrase; and finally, to suggest a global solution for all types of participial phrases, based on findings from Biblical Hebrew and colloquial Modern Hebrew.