copula

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In one episode the shirtless tribal leader Khal Drogo delivered a monologue for two and a half minutes in Dothraki, with its subject-verb-object structure and no copula, or linking verb.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2011

But since the former can be conceived only after the manner of the latter, the appropriateness of using the verb which expresses existence or reality, as the logical copula, will be at once apparent.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

It is apt to be supposed that the copula is something more than a mere sign of predication; that it also signifies existence.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart

The errors of common opinion arise to a great extent from the ambiguous use of the verb “to be,” which may imply existence or be merely the copula which connects subject and predicate.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various

These propositions, as will be seen, are not cast in what the logician calls logical form, with regular terms and copula.

From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas