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

Quando uterus prolabitur vel cervix producitur ita ut copula impossibilis sit, chirurgus mederi potest.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

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

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

The logicians will not see that their formal proposition, "Every X is Y," is material in three points, the degree of assertion, the quantity of the proposition, and the copula.

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