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

A verb may be said to be Hypercategorematic, implying, as it does, not only a term, but also a copula.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

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

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 heaping up of substantives without a copula is not uncommon in Lucretius.

From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Bushnell, Curtis C.