Abstract
Starting from Higgins’s taxonomy, this paper investigates Latin copular constructions and in particular the existence of “specificational” copular clauses. Morphosyntactic and semantic criteria are put forward in order to make clear the status of copular clauses such as Hic est danista (Plaut. Epid. 621).
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to the anonymous reviewer who made so many corrections and whose comments were very interesting and very useful.
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