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Copulative
Copulative meaning
Of or pertaining to copulation. | That acts as a copula. | That connects the subject of a clause with its complement.
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A copula is often a verb or a verb-like word, though this is not universally the case. citation A verb that is a copula is sometimes called a copulative or copular verb.
As the copulative verbalizer has no independent phonetic structure, it is represented by the Greek letter ʋ in the examples used in this entry.
However, it is also relevant to note that in a verb phrase like 'it is old', the noun thantha meaning 'old' does not require the copulative verbalizer, thantha-wa 'it is old'.
It is now pertinent to make some observations about the distribution of the copulative verbalizer.
The fact that the final vowel of -iri below is not suppressed indicates the presence of an intervening segment, the copulative verbalizer: sar(a)-iri-ʋ-t-wa ‘I usually go’.