In some of the Romance languages the copula, the equivalent of the verb to be in English, is relatively complex compared to its counterparts in other languages...

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, such...

(disambiguation) Indo-European copula Romance copula This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Copula. If an internal link led you...

of Vulgar Latin began to use it as a copula in certain circumstances. Today, this survives in that several Romance languages (Galician-Portuguese, Spanish...

languages, such as Portuguese and Italian, make a similar distinction. (See Romance Copula.) /no/ is used as a present tense negator: /if kau no did nua au im...

is not changed to [y]. The Iberian Romance languages all maintain a complete essence-state distinction in the copula (the verb "to be"). The "essence"...

Palatalization in the Romance languages Phonological changes from Classical Latin to Proto-Romance Proto-Romance languages Romance copula Romance languages Reichenau...

Copula is a monotypic genus of box jellyfish in the family Tripedaliidae of the phylum Cnidaria. The only species in the genus is Copula sivickisi, a very...

alone (although whether it truly does is a philosophical challenge) Romance copula § Spanish: ser versus estar Stochastics Substance theory Guthrie, William...

Romance copula for further information. For a more detailed illustration of how the verbs have changed with respect to classical Latin, see Romance verbs...