copulative

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noun an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence
adjective syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence

From Latin copulativus.

They are chiefly of two sorts, the Copulative and Disjunctive. — The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The English Tongue, Percival Leigh
But this is not matter of SYSTEM; for I have delivered that above——nor is it matter of BREVIARY——for I make no man’s creed but my own——nor matter of FACT——at least that I know of; but ’tis matter copulative and introductory to what follows. — The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman, Laurence Sterne
The first set of treatises on the Logical Topics, which concern things, contains: one essay on Propositions; one on those Propositions which are not simple; two on the Copulative Propositions, addressed to Athenades; three on Positive Propositions, addressed to Aristagoras; one on Definite Propositions, addressed to Athenodorus; one on Privative Propositions, addressed to Thearus; three on the Best Propositions, addressed to Dion; four on the Differences between Indefinite Propositions; two on those Propositions which are enunciated with a reference to time; two on Perfect Propositions. — The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes Laertius

copula, linking verb

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