copulalinking
Copulalinking, also known as copula linking, is a linguistic phenomenon in which the subject of a clause is connected to a predicative expression through a copula. The copula is typically a form of the verb to be or another copular verb, and it may be overt or omitted. The term covers both the presence of a dedicated linking verb and cases where the connecting element is zero, depending on the language and context.
In English, the copula is overt and tense-marked: The cat is hungry. The copula may carry tense,
Copula linking also governs the class of predicates that can follow the copula. Predicative adjectives, predicative
Typologically, copulalinking is central to studies of predication, copula absence, and the syntax of equivalence versus