By Charles H. Kahn
This publication deals a scientific description of the use and grammar of the verb 'to be' in old Greek, earlier than the philosophers took it over to specific the primary options in Greek good judgment and metaphysics. The facts is taken essentially from Homer, yet supplemented via specimens from classical Attic prose. subject matters mentioned contain the unique prestige of the verb in Indo-European, in addition to the logical and syntactic family between copula, existential, and veridical makes use of.
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6) the sentence operator: That is so, Thus it was that ... 1 3 4 7 9 10 lii ANALYTIC TABLE OF CONTENTS (7) as an example of idioms Or minor uses: He is to go tomorrow. (8) the it-extractor: It is here they did it. §8. Survey and classification of the copula Uses of be according to transformational principles. Elementary and second-order copulas. Adjectival copula, noun copula, and locative (or quasilocative) copula. §9. Non-copulative uses of be: the dummy-verb with temporal "predicates" (The meeting is tomorrow) and the existential phrase there is.
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V/ THE THEOR Y OF THE COPULA § 1. The traditional concept of the copula is reformulated to apply explicitly to locative as well as to nominal predicates. The notion of predication in turn is generalized to apply to all sentences. It is the finite verb, and not the copula as such, which then becomes the sign of predication. We distinguish (1) the syntactic role of the copula, providing the verb form required for sentence- ANALYTIC TABLE OF CONTENTS §2. §2a. §3. §4. hood, and (2) the semantic role, providing the indicative mood form which is the mark of declarative sentence or truth claim.