Look, seem and appear are all copular verbs and can be used in a similar way to indicate the impression you get from something or somebody. Copula verbs join adjectives (or noun compounds) to subjects ...

Copula clauses are distinguished from transitive and intransitive clause types. They have two core arguments, copula subject (CS) and copula complement (CC), together with a copula verb (which may ...

Huddleston and Pullum (2005) write “the verb agrees with the subject” (p. 31), and for quantificational nouns “the form of the verb depends on the … NP [noun phrase] that is complement to the ...

In this essay, I apply current linguistic theory to reanalyze earlier research on the acquisition of ser and estar (e.g., VanPatten 1985, 1987). Using insights from Roby and Schmitt ("Semi-Copulas"), ...

Look, seem and appear are all copular verbs and can be used in a similar way to indicate the impression you get from something or somebody. Copula verbs join adjectives (or noun compounds) to subjects ...