על מושג ה'סתמיות' והוראתו בשיעורי לשון בבית הספר העל-יסודי

This article deals with the term ״( stami(yut ״ in Hebrew semantics and syntax. It appears that this term denotes three different phenomena: impersonal, unspecified, and generic. The use of a single term for different phenomena is worthless. It is essential to distinguish among these different phenomena in Hebrew and to assign each one its own term. The article, which is an overview of what has been written about these phenomena in both English-and Hebrewlanguage research studies, and what is written in Hebrew grammar textbooks, suggests a new way to teach these phenomena in Israeli schools. Impersonal is a term used for a verb that has neither a subject nor an agent. Unspecified One .(׳ someone ׳ or ׳ a boy ׳) is a term used for unknown nouns or pronouns means without having been taught what ׳ unspecified ׳ cannot understand what means. Generic is a term used for the entire class of individuals, ׳ specifie ׳ member of the class. ׳ specified ׳ events, etc., as opposed to a is widely used – not ׳ impersonal ׳ In Hebrew grammar research, the term only for agentless verbs, but also for sentences that do not mention the subject, despite the fact that there is a subject, just as in passive agentless sentences. I concur with Lyons (1968) that this is incorrect. The recommendation with which the article concludes is to teach all of the accepted terms in English grammar, explaining and clarifying them well in order to ensure that the pupils receive a complete picture of phenomena that are closely related or equal to one another.