James E. Lavine
List of John Benjamins publications in which James E. Lavine is involved.
Articles
2016 Variable argument realization in Lithuanian impersonals Argument Realization in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel and Nicole Nau (eds.), pp. 107–136 | Article
This article considers the kind of information that is relevant for determining argument structure, and how this information is encoded syntactically. The approach I take here, anchored largely in Reinhart’s (2002) Theta System, contributes both to the widely discussed question of… read more
2013 Passives and near-passives in Balto-Slavic: On the survival of accusative Non-Canonical Passives, Alexiadou, Artemis and Florian Schäfer (eds.), pp. 185–212 | Article
This paper claims that variation regarding the appearance of accusative case on the Theme argument of passive and passive-like predicates in Ukrainian, Polish, and Lithuanian is a function of the arrangement of a predicate’s voice property and transitivity property in the functional domain of vP.… read more