copula
IPA: kˈɑpjʌɫʌ
noun
- (linguistics, grammar) A word, usually a verb, used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (usually a subject complement or an adverbial), that unites or associates the subject with the predicate.
- (statistics) A function that represents the association between two or more variables, independent of the individual marginal distributions of the variables.
- (music) A device that connects two or more keyboards of an organ.
- (biology) The act of copulation; mating.
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Examples of "copula" in Sentences
- Copulas is the plural form of copula.
- Formed from the copula and the suffix.
- Thanks for the help on Romance copula.
- Copulas based on the multivariate Student.
- It was instead fitted on the commander's copula.
- Comparison of the existential verb and the copula.
- It is mounted in the front of the commander's copula.
- Contrary to popular belief, this is not the copula to be.
- Contrary to popular belief, this is not the copula to be .
- The copula is present if the superlative is used predicatively.
- The want of a copula is another instance of the primitive character of the tongue.
- _ -- In this system the formal relation is taken, that is, the copula may be any whatever.
- Copula This couples (hence the Latinate term copula) the individual probabilities associated with A and B to come up with a single number.
- Therefore the circumstance of time is properly considered as attaching to the copula, which is the sign of predication, and not to the predicate.
- The copula is the sign denoting that there is an affirmation or denial, and thereby enabling the hearer or reader to distinguish a proposition from any other kind of discourse.
- The copula is the sign denoting that there is an affirmation or denial; and thereby enabling the hearer or reader to distinguish a proposition from any other kind of discourse.
- The Verb, as such, is not recognised by logic, but is resolved into predicate and copula, that is to say, into a noun which is affirmed or denied of another, plus the sign of that affirmation or denial.
- It is often an awkward task so to analyse propositions relative to past or future time as to bring out the copula under the form 'is' or 'is not': but fortunately there is no necessity for so doing, since, as has been said before (§ 188), the material form of the copula is a matter of indifference to logic.