Re: Copulas

Sally Caves wrote:
>
> I get the strong feeling that "zero copula" is one of the most popular conlang
> features.
> Teonaht has it, and in my perusal of other's conlangs, I see it all over the
> place, like
> the ergative.  How right am I?  <G>
>
> Sally Caves
> scaves@frontiernet.net
> http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/verbs.html   (copula page not up yet, alas)
Feorran has both a copula and ergativity.  The copula verb in Feorran
is not really a verb but more like a conjunction for lack of a better
term.
Nova was ergative but will soon emerge with its own odd little system
but it is generally considered by me at least to be copula-free.
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