Publications

(2024). (Lavine, James E. and Svitlana Antonyuk). “Verbal Layers and Initiators in Ukrainian.” ms.

(2022). “The Structure of v-Heads and the Status of the Initiator Role.” Festschrift for Steven L. Franks. Eds. George Fowler, James Lavine, and Ronald Feldstein. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers.

(2021). “Modalities of Case Assignment: The View from Lithuanian.” Studies in Baltic and other Languages: A Festschrift for Axel Holvoet on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Eds. Peter Arkadiev, Jurgis Pakerys, Isena Šeškauskienė, and Vaiva Žeimantienė. Vilnius: Vilnius University Press.

(2019). (Lavine, James E. and Leonard H. Babby). “A New Argument for the Lexical Underspecification of Causers.” Linguistic Inquiry 50.4: 803-824.

(2017). “Syntactic Change and the Rise of Transitivity: The Case of the Polish and Ukrainian –no/-to Construction.” Studies in Polish Linguistics 12: 173-198.

(2016). “Variable Argument Realization in Lithuanian Impersonals.” Argument Realization in Baltic. Eds. Axel Holvoet and Nicole Nau. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 107-135.

(2014a). “Anti-Burzio Predicates: From Russian and Ukrainian to Icelandic.” Journal of the Moscow State University for the Humanities. Philology Series, 91-106.

(2014b). “Remarks on Object Case in the North Russian Perfect.” Slavica Bergensia 11, Special Issue: Contemporary Approaches to Dialectology: The Area of North, Northwest Russian, and Belarusian Vernaculars, 167-194.

(2013). “Passives and Near-Passives in Balto-Slavic: On the Survival of Accusative.” Non-Canonical Passives, eds. Artemis Alexiadou and Florian Schäfer. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 185-211.

(2011). “What does Structural Accusative Mean? An Argument Against the Aspectual Theory.” Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 19, eds. John Bailyn et al. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 66-84.

(2010a). “Case and Events in Transitive Impersonals.” Journal of Slavic Linguistics 18.1: 101-130.

(2010b). “Case and Events in Ukrainian Experiencer Predicates.” Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 18, eds. Wayles Browne et al. Ann Arbor:: Michigan Slavic Publications, 285-300.

(2010c). “Mood and a Transitivity Restriction in Lithuanian: The Case of the Inferential Evidential.” Baltic Linguistics. 1: 115-142

(2008). (Lavine, James E. and Steven Franks). “On Accusative First.” In Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 16, eds. Andrei Antonenko, John F. Bailyn, and Christina Y. Bethin. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 231-247.

(2007). (Lavine, James and Robert Freidin). “The Subject of Defective T(ense) in Slavic.” Reprinted in Freidin, Robert. 2007. Generative Grammar: Theory and its History, Routledge Leading Linguists series, 134-159. [Originally published as Lavine and Freidin 2002/2004]

(2006a). (Franks, Steven and James Lavine). “Case and word order in Lithuanian.
Journal of Linguistics 42: 239-288.

(2006b). “Is there a passive evidential strategy in Lithuanian?” In Papers from the 42nd
Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society,
 eds. Jacqueline Bunting et al., 41-55.

(2006c). (Greenberg, Gerald and James Lavine). “New syntax in Russian and Lithuanian: The case of the adverbial participle.” In Studies in Slavic Linguistics and Folklore, ed. Robert Rothstein, Ernest Scatton and Charles Townsend. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 143-170.

(2005a). “The morphosyntax of Polish and Ukrainian -no/-to.” Journal of Slavic
Linguistics
 13(1): 75-117.

(2005b). (Lavine, James and Steven Franks). “On nominative objects.” In Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 13, ed. Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva, Steven Franks, and Frank Gladney. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 195-206.

(2003). “Resumption in Slavic: Phases, cyclicity, and Case.” In Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 11. ed. Wayles Browne, et al. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 355-372.

(2002/2004). (Lavine, James and Robert Freidin). “The subject of defective T(ense) in Slavic.” Journal of Slavic Linguistics 10(1-2): 251-287.

(2002). “On the site of morphology and crosslinguistic variation.” In Papers from the 37th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Vol. 2, ed. Mary Andronis, Christopher Ball, Heidi Elston, and Sylvain Neuvel. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 437-451.

(2001). “On a new (affixal) AUX in Polish.” In Generative Linguistics in Poland 2, ed. Piotr Banski and Adam Przepiorkowski. Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences, 123-134.

(1999). “Subject properties and ergativity in North Russian and Lithuanian.” In Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 7, ed. Katarzyna Dziwirek, Herbert Coats, and Cynthia Vakareliyska. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 307-328.

(1998). “Null expletives and the EPP in Slavic: A minimalist analysis.” In Formal Aproaches to Slavic Linguistics 6, ed. Zeljko Boskovic, Steven Franks, and William Snyder. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 212-230.

(1997). “A lexicalist perspective of valency changing operations in Russian and Czech.”
The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 68: 5-34.

Tribute

(2015). “A Tribute to Leonard H. Babby on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday.” Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch 3: 386-389.

Review

(2010). Kylie Richardson, Case and Aspect in Slavic. Oxford: OUP. Slavic and East European Journal 54(1).

Edited Volumes

(2022). (George Fowler, James Lavine, and Ronald Feldstein, eds.) Festschrift for Steven L. Franks. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers.

(2006). (Lavine, James E. et al.) Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 14. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications.

(2002). (James E. Lavine and Gerald R. Greenberg) Journal of Slavic Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Leonard H. Babby. 10(1-2).