The word 'copula' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a technical term used in linguistics and grammar to refer to a linking verb that connects the subject of a sentence to its complement. It is also used in mathematics and logic to denote a symbol or word that connects two or more elements in a sentence or statement. Example: In the sentence "The apple is red," the verb "is" serves as a copula, linking the subject "apple" to its complement "red."
Lady arachnids have a well-deserved reputation for polishing off their suitors, post copula, in a manner that Hannibal Lecter might have admired.
Dr Joyce thinks they mated at the lake's surface, and then dived in copula to the lake-bed to avoid disturbance.
Using Li's copula approach meant that ratings agencies like Moody 's oranybody wanting to model the risk of a tranche no longer needed to puzzle over the underlying securities.
For the moment, one might note that Broad could argue that McTaggart's (A1) seems plausible if the copula is understood in some tenseless fashion, whereas (A2) is plausible if the copula is tensed.
If, however, the copula is not univocal in (A1) and (A2), then there is no contradiction involved in accepting both.
(Savitt, 2001) The claim that the copula is ambiguous (or more precisely, polysemous) has also been thought to have some implications for the metaphysical dispute between presentism and the two non-presentist views sketched above.
It contains a copula, that is, when joined to the correct number of arguments it produces an assertion.
If 'Every star twinkles' expresses a proposition that contains a copula, then spoken languages mask certain aspects of logical structure.
As such, w is (in the encoding sense of the copula, at least) such that p. Thus, according to Zalta's theory of encoding, worlds are in some sense metaphysically characterized or determined by such states of affairs.
In a given natural language, contradictory negation may be expressed as a particle associated with a copula or a verb, as an inflected auxiliary verb, as a verb of negation, or as a negative suffix or prefix.
These relations correspond roughly to those of identity, part versus whole, constitution, and predication, which in European languages are all typically expressed using the verb to be, or the copula.
