Existential Constructions across Languages: Forms, meanings and functions
Edited by Laure Sarda and Ludovica Lena
[Human Cognitive Processing, 76] 2023. x, 352 pp.
Ludovica Lena
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ludovica Lena plays a role.
Title
Subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
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
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
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