Arabic copula

Lucyna Gebert lucynageb at LIBERO.IT
Mon Feb 4 15:48:00 UTC 2002


Also Slavic languages use a pronoun (a demonstrative) as a copula:

Polish:

Jan to moj dobry przyjaciel
Jan demonstr. my good friend (Jan is a good friend of mine)

Ten czlowiek to potwor
this man demonstr. monster (This man is a monster)

The same construction is used in Russian.

Lucyna Gebert
University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy.



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