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

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

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

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

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