Ludovica Lena

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Ludovica Lena plays a role.

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Existential Constructions across Languages: Forms, meanings and functions

Edited by Laure Sarda and Ludovica Lena

[Human Cognitive Processing, 76] 2023. x, 352 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

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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
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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