Are there any potential for misinterpretation or misrepresentation based on how linking relationships are framed?

Sep 18, 2017 ... Dialect Variation of Copula and Auxiliary Verb BE: African American English-Speaking Children With and Without Gullah/Geechee Heritage. J Speech ... Uncontractible copula (used as main verb), This is mine. Articles (a, the), A ... Contractible copula, It's cold outside. Contractible auxiliary, Mommy's ... Dec 16, 2018 ... Is "have" a copular verb · HAVE is not a copular verb because it takes a direct object. Copular verbs take a subject complement. · 1. But "be" ... copula. [ kop-yuh-luh ]. Phonetic (Standard) IPA. noun. plural copulas, copulae. something that connects or links together. Also called linking verb. Grammar. a ... Sep 11, 2020 ... "Be", "seem", "look", "sound", and more are examples of linking verbs in English. These are also called copula verbs. The nature of the group differences can be tied to the creole heritage of the AAE-speaking children. Recall that previous studies of Gullah describe a copula ... ... copula verb, suggesting that the category may be better defined functionally rather than formally, as Halliday (1994) and McGregor (1990, 1992, 1996) do ... The present study examines the production of the Spanish copula verbs ser and estar among child and adult heritage speakers of Spanish born and raised in the ... Apr 24, 2022 ... What Are Copular Verbs? Copular verbs are a type of verb that link the person or thing a sentence is about (the subject) with a phrase that ... Feb 23, 2009 ... ... verb (the copula, or perhaps a verb of location). In others, they ... copula-verb-lex := verb-lex & trans-first-arg-raising-lex-item-2 ...