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

Relative.—In this system the formal relation is taken, that is, the copula may be any whatever.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene

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

Dismissing, for the present, the copula, of which more will be said hereafter, every proposition, then, consists of at least two names; brings together two names, in a particular manner.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by Mill, John Stuart

He thinks his fate alien, because the copula is hidden.

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various