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

If it must not be left out altogether, and we cannot put it with the copula, we have a choice between the two terms.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

By means of this representation, and the peculiar nature of the attribute, the verb is distinguished from the mere logical copula, with which it is liable to be confounded if these ideas are not understood.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

Nature and office of the copula 85 2.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I by Mill, John Stuart

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 by Mill, John Stuart