In linguistics, a copula (/ˈkɒpjələ/; pl.: copulas or copulae; abbreviated cop) is a word or phrase that links the subject of a sentence to a subject...

structure of the tongue Copula (linguistics), a word used to link subject and predicate Indo-European copula Romance copula Copula (probability theory), a function...

"tie", similar but only metaphorically related to grammatical copulas in linguistics. Copulas have been used widely in quantitative finance to model and...

Zero copula, also known as null copula, is a linguistic phenomenon whereby the subject is joined to the predicate without overt marking of this relationship...

languages the copula, the equivalent of the verb to be in English, is relatively complex compared to its counterparts in other languages. A copula is a word...

article in English. A zero copula, in which a copula such as the verb to be is implied but absent. For example, in Russian the copula is usually omitted in...

This verb has two basic meanings: In a less marked context it is a simple copula (I’m tired; That’s a shame!), a function which in non-Indo-European languages...

In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In traditional...

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treatments, the copula be is classed as an auxiliary even though it does not "help" another verb, e.g., The bird is in the tree. – is serves as a copula with a...

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, involving analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context. Language use was first...

as the copula. The general copula is /ciə/; it is used to convey identity with nominal predicates.: 212  For locative predicates, the copula is /nɨw/...

The double "is", also known as the double copula, reduplicative copula, or Is-is, is the usage of the word "is" twice in a row (repeated copulae) when...

predicate is "mortal" and copula is "are", while in the second example, the subject is "Socrates", the predicate is "a man" and copula is "is". Often, propositions...

Linguistic typology (or language typology) is a field of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features to allow...

tä-za məss goy mät't'ahi "I came with that man". ma "who?" (man before the copula): man mät't'a? "who came?" yäma "whose?" mən "what?"; yämən "why?" yitta...

fight. (subject the boys + copula are + going to + base-infinitive fight) I'm going to try the wine. (subject I + copula am + going to + base-infinitive...

In linguistics and grammar, affirmation (abbreviated AFF) and negation (NEG) are ways in which grammar encodes positive and negative polarity into verb...

instead (predicative expression-copula-subject, e.g. The plumber is Fred). The verb in these constructions is always the copula be (am, are, is, was, were)...

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copulative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Copulative may refer to: Copula (linguistics), a part of speech Copulation (zoology), the union of the sex organs...

inflection Verb Verb argument Volition (linguistics) Weak inflection Category:Grammatical conjugation Indo-European copula Archivium: Italian verbs conjugator...

Existential clauses Expletives Extraposition Gapping Heavy NP shift Inverse copula sentences Movement paradoxes Negative inversion Non-configurational language...

(2002), "Semantic transparency as a predictor of copula choice in second-language acquisition", Linguistics, 40 (2): 439–468, doi:10.1515/ling.2002.019 Gil...

In linguistics, aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how a verbal action, event, or state, extends over time. For instance, perfective aspect...

In linguistics, inversion is any of several grammatical constructions where two expressions switch their typical or expected order of appearance, that...

Grammatical conjugation The Horse, the Wheel, and Language (book) Indo-European copula Indo-European sound laws Indo-European studies Indo-Semitic languages Indo-Uralic...

perfective aspect participle and the imperfect past conjugations act as the copula to mark imperfect past when used with the aspectual participles. Hindi-Urdu...

The term predicate is used in two ways in linguistics and its subfields. The first defines a predicate as everything in a standard declarative sentence...

expression Copula Relative clause Heycock, C. (2012). Specification, equation, and agreement in copular sentences. The Canadian Journal of Linguistics/La revue...