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cop: copula

In Irish, there is a distinction between the substantive verb `to be’, which inflects for tense, mood and person as per all Irish verbs – and the copula is, which only has two tensed forms - present/future and past/conditional.

, as a verb, uses separate particles in negative and interrogative constructions. Is (copula) uses its own forms in these constructions. For example:

The order of elements in a copula construction is in general: copula, predicate (new or focussed information), and subject

cop is used to link the copula verb is and its predicate. See xcomp:pred to see how the verb is linked to a predicate.

Examples

#### equative construction

Is múinteoir é ‘He is a teacher’

idiomatic expressions

Ba mhaith liom gan fanacht ‘I would like not to stay’

cleft constructions

Is iad a bheidh ina gcomhaltaí de na coistí sin ‘It is they who will be members of those committees’

ownership constructions

An leatsa é? ‘Is it yours?’


Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)

This relation is universal.

373 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as cop.

368 instances of cop (99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.23592493297587.

The following 11 pairs of parts of speech are connected with cop: NOUN-VERB (144; 39% instances), ADJ-VERB (126; 34% instances), ADP-VERB (46; 12% instances), PRON-VERB (35; 9% instances), PROPN-VERB (10; 3% instances), ADV-VERB (4; 1% instances), ADJ-PART (3; 1% instances), VERB-VERB (2; 1% instances), ADP-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), DET-VERB (1; 0% instances), X-VERB (1; 0% instances).


cop in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]
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