{"id":7604,"date":"2019-05-22T15:58:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/copula\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:58:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:40","slug":"copula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/copula\/","title":{"rendered":"Copula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A linking verb whose main function is to relate other elements of clause structure, especially subject and complement, as in &#8216;the cup is on the table&#8217;, &#8216;these are hamsters&#8217;. &nbsp;Thus, it is the verb of existence, such as the English verb &#8216;be&#8217;. &nbsp;A zero copula, a feature of African-American English, Arabic, Hebrew, Hungarian and Russian, is when an overt copula like &#8216;is&#8217; is omitted as in &#8216;He running&#8217;. &nbsp;Children&#8217;s first sentences in English contain zero copulas.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"grammaticization_-or_grammaticalization-\">Grammaticization (or grammaticalization)<\/a>, <a href=\"language_development\">Language development<\/a>, <a href=\"predicates_-grammar-\">Predicates (grammar)<\/a>, Syntax<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A linking verb whose main function is to relate other elements of clause structure, especially subject and complement, as in &#8216;the cup is on the table&#8217;, &#8216;these are hamsters&#8217;. &nbsp;Thus, it is the verb of existence, such as the English verb &#8216;be&#8217;. &nbsp;A zero copula, a feature of African-American English, Arabic, Hebrew, Hungarian and Russian, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/copula\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Copula&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}