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\title{\large Handout of ``Voice in Classical Hebrew against Its Semitic Background''\footnote{Holger Gzella in \emph{Orientalia} (2009).}}
\author{Camil Staps}
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\maketitle
Semitic languages generally express the semantic distinction between active and non-active using \term{verbal stems}\pagenr{292}.
There is a base stem (the \term{G-stem}) and three principal derived stems:
the \term{D-stem}, where the middle root consonant is lengthened;
the \term{C-stem}, which expresses causativity; and
the \term{N-stem}, which has a prefix starting with /n-/
and at least in some cases serves as the medio-passive of the G-stem\pagenrs{293--4}.
An infix /t/ may be used to indicate reflexivity, reciprocality or medio-passiveness.
Many verbs derived from nouns do not occur in the G-stem.
Also, over time, usage often tends to shift away from the G-stem.
Therefore, the description in this paragraph is very rough\pagenr{296}.
In Central Semitic languages\note{Hebrew, Aramaic, Ugaritic, Arabic, and others},
\term{internal passives} (where the consonantal skeleton remains unchanged) of the G, D and C stems exist\pagenr{297}.
\parnote{For an overview of the functions associated to the different stems, see p.~300.}
In Hebrew, the Gt and Ct stems seem to have disappeared,
the internal passive Gp only survives in residual forms
but the other (medio-)passive and reflexive stems\note{N, Dt, Dp, Cp} remain\pagenr{303}.
The surviving forms seem to have absorbed some of the functions of the abolished ones.
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