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- noun Plural form of
copula .
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It's a patchwork of ethnic groups, which were once subjugated but which are now rediscovering their roots, most noticeably in the Volga city of Kazan, where new minarets and gilt Orthodox copulas compete for prominence on the city's skyline.
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It's a patchwork of ethnic groups, which were once subjugated but which are now rediscovering their roots, most noticeably in the Volga city of Kazan, where new minarets and gilt Orthodox copulas compete for prominence on the city's skyline.
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It's a patchwork of ethnic groups, which were once subjugated but which are now rediscovering their roots, most noticeably in the Volga city of Kazan, where new minarets and gilt Orthodox copulas compete for prominence on the city's skyline.
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It's a patchwork of ethnic groups, which were once subjugated but which are now rediscovering their roots, most noticeably in the Volga city of Kazan, where new minarets and gilt Orthodox copulas compete for prominence on the city's skyline.
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It's a patchwork of ethnic groups, which were once subjugated but which are now rediscovering their roots, most noticeably in the Volga city of Kazan, where new minarets and gilt Orthodox copulas compete for prominence on the city's skyline.
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A temporal syllogism consists of sentences whose copulas involve temporal ampliation.
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Slovenian Romani apparently has borrowed negative copulas nije '(s)he is not' and niso 'they are not' directly from Slovenian (Matras, Romani: A Linguistic Introduction (2002), p.209).
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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(I have more contemplations about Semitic loans in MIE in the near future that I need to get off my chest and I want to tackle the borrowing hierarchy mentioned in Elsik/Matras, Markedness and Language Change: The Romani Sample (2006), p.320 which I cited in Borrowing copulas - Never say never because there are more tasty connections I've noticed between Indo-European & Semitic that tie into this model nicely.)
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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Slovenian Romani apparently has borrowed negative copulas nije '(s)he is not' and niso 'they are not' directly from Slovenian (Matras, Romani: A Linguistic Introduction (2002), p.209).
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(I have more contemplations about Semitic loans in MIE in the near future that I need to get off my chest and I want to tackle the borrowing hierarchy mentioned in Elsik/Matras, Markedness and Language Change: The Romani Sample (2006), p.320 which I cited in Borrowing copulas - Never say never because there are more tasty connections I've noticed between Indo-European & Semitic that tie into this model nicely.)
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