Ludovica Lena
Biographic Data
| ID | 5889442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ludovica Lena |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ludovica |
| FAMILY NAME | Lena |
| SIGNATURE | LENA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Xiamen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5188-9151 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Encoding indefinite human reference without indefinite pronouns
The Chinese sequence yǒu rén [exist person] is both the minimal existential-presentational construction and the functional equivalent of indefinite pronouns in encoding indefinite human reference. This dual characteristic prompts the question of whether yǒu rén functions as a presentational construction comparable to similar forms in other languages. Building on a literary corpus of Chinese contemporary novels, this study aims to determine if yǒu…
Negative existentials and presentationals in Chinese
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 negative contexts. The analysis shows that negative existentials convey human absence in a given location, with the English translation often thematizing the lo…
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Existential Constructions Across Languages
The (Non-)acquisition of the Chinese Definiteness Effect
Partition and existence
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 coercion on the reading of the pivot which is then interpreted as generic-partitive. I argue that, in such cases, the yǒu- construction is not used to signal re…
Existential constructions
An Unbridgeable Gap? The Treatment of Definiteness Restrictions in French and Chinese Presentational Constructions
Availing ourselves of a parallel corpus – composed of two written and spoken subcorpora –, in this study we adopt a contrastive perspective to explore the (lack of) correspondence between French il y a-constructions with a definite pivot and Chinese yǒu-constructions. It is shown that most il y a-constructions appear in enumerative contexts (including the sentence-level and inter-clause list-reading, as well as the instantiation of an explicit pa…
Les énoncés «présentatifs» chez les apprenants sinophones de français L2
La présente étude s’intéresse à l’organisation du discours chez les apprenants sinophones de français L2, en analysant leur maîtrise des procédés syntaxiques associés à la fonction d’introduction référentielle. Cette recherche part du constat que le français et le chinois L1 se servent de stratégies syntaxiques très proches : les francophones recourent massivement à la construction en « il y a » suivie d’une proposition relative, tandis que les s…
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Les énoncés «présentatifs» chez les apprenants sinophones de français L2
La présente étude s’intéresse à l’organisation du discours chez les apprenants sinophones de français L2, en analysant leur maîtrise des procédés syntaxiques associés à la fonction d’introduction référentielle. Cette recherche part du constat que le français et le chinois L1 se servent de stratégies syntaxiques très proches : les francophones recourent massivement à la construction en « il y a » suivie d’une proposition relative, tandis que les s…
An Unbridgeable Gap? The Treatment of Definiteness Restrictions in French and Chinese Presentational Constructions
Availing ourselves of a parallel corpus – composed of two written and spoken subcorpora –, in this study we adopt a contrastive perspective to explore the (lack of) correspondence between French il y a-constructions with a definite pivot and Chinese yǒu-constructions. It is shown that most il y a-constructions appear in enumerative contexts (including the sentence-level and inter-clause list-reading, as well as the instantiation of an explicit pa…
Existential Constructions Across Languages
The (Non-)acquisition of the Chinese Definiteness Effect
Partition and existence
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 coercion on the reading of the pivot which is then interpreted as generic-partitive. I argue that, in such cases, the yǒu- construction is not used to signal re…
Existential constructions
Encoding indefinite human reference without indefinite pronouns
The Chinese sequence yǒu rén [exist person] is both the minimal existential-presentational construction and the functional equivalent of indefinite pronouns in encoding indefinite human reference. This dual characteristic prompts the question of whether yǒu rén functions as a presentational construction comparable to similar forms in other languages. Building on a literary corpus of Chinese contemporary novels, this study aims to determine if yǒu…
Negative existentials and presentationals in Chinese
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 negative contexts. The analysis shows that negative existentials convey human absence in a given location, with the English translation often thematizing the lo…
Looking for someone
Philosophy (9 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Definiteness (2 works)