Zero copula (734 bytes)
1: ...nguistic term used to define the absence of the [[copula]]. Russian, Hungarian, Hebrew, and Arabic, among ...
3: ...nd use of the copula. For example, in Russian the copula'' byt' ''is normally omitted in the present tense...
8: The present tense of the copula in Russian was in common use well into the 1800s ...
11: *[[Copula]]

Copula (11689 bytes)
1: In [[linguistics]], a '''copula''' is a word that is used to link the [[subject]]...
3: A copula is sometimes (though not always) a [[verb]] or a ...
5: ...such verbs in the language: in that case, English copulas include, "to be", "to become", "to get" and "to ...
8: ==The copula in English==
11: We can identify several sub-uses of the copula:

Romance copula (27369 bytes)
1: ...and '''<small>STO</small>'''. The former was the copular verb "to be", and the latter mainly meant "to st...
3: See [[Copula]] for information on other languages, including E...
17: The Spanish copulae developed as follows:
113: The [[Catalan language|Catalan]] copulae developed as follows:
119: The distinction between the two copulae is very similar to the distinction in Spanish, w...

Substantive (293 bytes)
3: ...pressing [[existence]] (in contrast to use as a [[copula]]).

Verbum dicendi (462 bytes)
1: ...onally, a verbum dicendi may take the form of a [[copula]]tive, as in the [[colloquialism]] ''"He was like...

IS (631 bytes)
3: * ''is'': The third-person singular form of the [[copula]] in the [[English language]]

Be (628 bytes)
4: *'''To be''': The infinitive form of the [[copula]] in the [[English language]]

Verb (5896 bytes)
23: == Copula ==
24: ''See main article [[Copula]].''
26: ...as are a special kind of verb, sometimes called ''copulative verbs'' or ''linking verbs''.
28: ...nsitive/intransitive distinction. The most basic copula in English is ''to be''; there are others (''rema...
30: ...te sentence. This construction is called ''[[zero copula]]''.

Concept and object (2990 bytes)
3: ...ifies an Object together with a predicate (the [[copula]] "is", plus a general term accompanied by the in...
5: ... consisted of two [[general term]]s joined by the copula "is".

Being (1564 bytes)
5: In [[linguistics]], "to be" is a [[copula]].

Correlation (4305 bytes)
26: ...ariables we must consider the [[stochastic copula|copula]] between them.

Cuatro Caminos (1243 bytes)
10: ...Spanish language|Spanish]] has two forms of the [[copula]] to distinguish duration.)

Objective (grammar) (2306 bytes)
26: Finally, following a [[copula]] (linking verb) with an objective pronoun is con...

Blandford Forum (2203 bytes)
5: ... Peter and St Paul is a classical building with a copula on top of the tower and was built in [[1732]].

Japanese language guide (10073 bytes)
24: ...ese nominals almost invariably have a form of the copula (such as ''na'') following them, to the point whe...
35: '''Copula''': Although the copula is not strictly a verb, most of its forms derive ...
55: ... The predicate must be a [[verbal]], although a [[copula]] with a nominal suffices. More frequently, a [[s...
174: ''desu'' - to be (copula, as opposed to existence)

Am (2332 bytes)
2: ...the verb "[[Wiktionary:Be#English|to be]]", the [[copula]] of the [[English language]].

Hypercorrection (2680 bytes)
5: ... also appear behind words that are serving as a [[copula]], and thus would call for a simple predicate in ...

Genus-differentia definition (3430 bytes)
7: ...mum et differentiam specificam.''), you use the ''copula'' (''is'', ''are'') after the ''definiendum'' (ju...

Categorical syllogism (10255 bytes)
9: ...: All S is P, where S is the subject, 'is' is the copula, and P is the predicate.

Soddo language (15557 bytes)
112: *''ma'' "who?" (''man'' before the [[copula]]): ''man mät't'a?'' "who came?"
133: ===[[Copula]] and [[existential verb]]s===
135: The copula (positive and negative) is irregular in the [[pre...
185: ... is likewise expressed by ''tihon''. The present copula in subordinate clauses is expressed by the subor...
187: ...ng an element ''-tt'' between the pronoun and the copula: eg ''k&#695;a-tt&#601;-n'' "it is he".

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