Ludovica Lena

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ludovica Lena is involved.

Title

Existential Constructions across Languages: Forms, meanings and functions

Edited by Laure Sarda and Ludovica Lena

This volume reflects the centrality of the existential construction in current linguistic research and offers studies that both consolidate and challenge established research agendas. It addresses (i) a variety of constructions related to ‘prototypical’ existentials (including the have-possessive… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 76] 2023. x, 352 pp.

Articles

Lena, Ludovica 2024 Negative existentials and presentationals in Chinese: A parallel corpus investigation Linguistic Constructions, Trawiński, Beata, Marc Kupietz and Kristel Proost (eds.), pp. 226–247 | Article

This study investigates the translation strategies for the negated counterparts of yǒu rén ‘there is someone, there are people’ in a parallel corpus composed of Chinese-to-English aligned narrative texts. It specifically explores the distinction between existentials and presentationals in… read more

Lena, Ludovica 2023 Chapter 8. Partition and existence: The case of you ren ‘there’s someone, there are people’ in Chinese Existential Constructions across Languages: Forms, meanings and functions, Sarda, Laure and Ludovica Lena (eds.), pp. 245–282 | Chapter

This contribution concerns Chinese biclausal constructions introduced by the existential verb yǒu and including the bare noun rén ‘person, people’ in the pivotal position. Building upon spoken corpus data, I show that the co-occurrence of an individual-level predicate in the coda exerts a… read more

Sarda, Laure and Ludovica Lena 2023 Chapter 1. Existential constructions: In search of a definition Existential Constructions across Languages: Forms, meanings and functions, Sarda, Laure and Ludovica Lena (eds.), pp. 1–32 | Chapter