How do modal verbs interact with copula verbs?

The study examines the use of the indicative vs. subjunctive, the preterit vs. the imperfect, and copula verbs ser vs. estar, in relation to stylistic variables ... Publications. A corpus-based analysis of Igbo and Spanish copula verbs. Details. Export. Options. A corpus-based analysis of Igbo and Spanish copula verbs. Jun 6, 2023 ... Teach verbs that take adjectives instead of adverbs, with linking verb games and other copula verb practice activities. of Old English, the syntactic structure of intransitive verbs weakened and the argument structure disappeared, so that the verb became a copula with an. copular verb (Adj) — a copula links the subject of a clause to the predicate, a word that describes or identifies ... Mar 20, 2012 ... A copula was a kind of transitive verb, and its secondary complement a direct object (the subject being the primary complement of the verb). Sep 7, 2011 ... This make more." But she includes the copular verb be in its plain form. My substantive question for linguists who know more languages than ... In most European grammars, the first thing learned is the conjugation of the verbs 'to have' and 'to be.' In Bantu there is no verb 'to have,' untrained copula is plus predicate nominative and locative items was marked by individual variability. Although auxiliary and copula is verb production was ... My analysis begins with the argument that shì is the systematic copula verb in Chinese. After identifying problems with previous accounts, I outline my own, ...