In linguistics, a copula (pl.: copulas or copulae; abbreviated cop) is a word or phrase that links the subject of a sentence to a subject complement,...

Look up copula in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Copula may refer to: Copula (linguistics), a word used to link subject and predicate Copula (music)...

for "link" or "tie", similar but unrelated to grammatical copulas in linguistics. Copulas have been used widely in quantitative finance to model and...

Zero copula is a linguistic phenomenon whereby the subject is joined to the predicate without overt marking of this relationship (like the copula "to be"...

article in English. A zero copula, in which a copula such as the verb to be is implied but absent. For example, in Russian the copula is usually omitted in...

languages the copula, the equivalent of the verb to be in English, is relatively complex compared to its counterparts in other languages. A copula is a word...

In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In traditional...

(2002), "Semantic transparency as a predictor of copula choice in second-language acquisition", Linguistics, 40 (2): 439–468, doi:10.1515/ling.2002.019 Gil...

The double copula, also known as the reduplicative copula, double is or Isis, is the usage of two successive copulae when only one is necessary, largely...

instead (predicative expression-copula-subject, e.g. The plumber is Fred). The verb in these constructions is always the copula be (am, are, is, was, were)...