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
The hair at the back of his head was cropped to the roots, and displayed the shape of the powerful skull, which was posed on the ruddy full neck like the copula of a dome.
From The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann
It may be remarked, not only from this example, but from general study, that the verb "to be" as a copula or predicant does not have any place in sign language.
Again, adjectives are used as intransitive verbs, as in most Indian languages there is no verb to be used as a predicant or copula.
From On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16 by John Wesley Powell
Sometimes, to make his sense unmistakable, he will repeat a whole formula, with only a change in the copula.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen
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
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
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
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