copulative verb

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Sources

• HARTMANN & STORK 1972 55 (= equational verb, catenative verb, connector)

  HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.

• LYONS 1977 433-434

  LYONS, John. (1977) Semantics. Vols. 1 & 2. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

• QUIRK etal. 1985 54 (= equative verb, intensive verb)

  QUIRK, Randolph, GREENBAUM, Sidney, LEECH, Geoffrey, & SVARTNIK, Jan. (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.

• WALES 1989 98

  WALES, Katie. (1989) A Dictionary of Stylistics. London: Longman. 

• CRYSTAL 2003 110

  CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.