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Examples of copula

copula
Specifically, these three forms were deletion of the copula, deletion of the auxiliary, and subject - verb variation.
In essence, this decision results in a distinction between copula and auxiliary functions of is and are.
For the dependent variable of zero copula, there are three variants.
Figure 3 summarizes the distributions of the zero copula by following grammatical environment.
Especially the copula seems to ensure that the subject and the predicate are in a definite logical relationship.
They never attempt to invert main verbs (other than copula be).
At the same time, we did see development in language-specific inflectional morphology and syntax required for copulas and lexical main verbs.
The first finite forms usually are modals and the copula\\auxiliary is, supplemented by a limited set of stative lexical verbs.
For this variable, the zero copula is near-categorical in conversation styles, occurring with 90% frequency.
Specifically, are and preceding vowels favor copula absence, whereas is and preceding consonants disfavor copula absence.
The sociolinguistic approach to copula contrast does not surface in the textbooks or in classroom discussion.
Minor register variation patterns are introduced by variation in equational and copula verb constructions, and by avoidance of some of the case variables.
Copula can modify a verb phrase only if the value of the feature (head copula) is allowed.
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