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
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 John Stuart Mill
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 John Stuart Mill
The proposition is composed of two terms and the copula, one term constituting the subject of the proposition and the other the predicate.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
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
Each of these eight copulae gives rise to a spore.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
The doctrine of copulae was discarded, and in 1859 emphasis was given to the view that all organic compounds were derivatives of inorganic by simple substitution processes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
Unwilling to discard the strictly unitary views of these chemists, or to adopt the copulae theory of Berzelius, he revived the notion of radicals in a new form.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
A brilliant crescent moon hung in the steel blue eastern sky, above the stables, the copulas of which cut sharply into the air.
From The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann
He had been known to continue one sentence for ten minutes, his oratorical method being to substitute copulas for full stops.
From Years of Plenty by Ivor Brown
From this it follows, that whenever there is a conjunction, there are two subjects, two copulas, and two predicates: i.e., two propositions in all their parts.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
