A "Nominal" sentence (also known as equational sentence)[1] is a linguistic term that refers to a nonverbal sentence (i.e. a sentence without a finite verb).[2] As a nominal sentence does not have a verbal predicate, it may contain a nominal predicate, an adjectival predicate, in Semitic languages also an adverbial predicate or even a prepositional predicate. In Egyptian-Coptic, however, as in the majority of African languages, sentences with adverbial or prepositional predicate show a distinctly different structure.[3]
The relation of nominal sentences to verbal sentences is a question of tense marking. In most languages with nominal sentences such as Russian, Arabic and Hebrew, the copular verb does not surface in indicatival present tense sentences. Conversely, these languages allow the copular verb in non-present sentences.
^"Nominal Sentence | Definition of Nominal Sentence by Merriam-Webster". merriam-webster.com.
^Callender, J.B. (July 1989). "Studies in the Nominal Sentences in Egyptian and Coptic". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 48 (3): 230–232. doi:10.1086/373401.
^Satzinger, H. (2002). "The Egyptian connection: Egyptian and the Semitic languages". Israel Oriental Studies. 20: 227–264.
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