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arbitrer-644	Mustaffa, Amir Rashad	Copular Clauses in Malay with Distal Demonstrative Itu	2025	13	.pdf	application/pdf	7740	486	55	With regard to Malay itu, it clearly has copular properties when used in nonverbal clauses, especially due to its distribution and lack of semantics. Seeing that this distal demonstrative pronoun has never received any attention as a copula in the linguistics literature before, this study investigates the copular use of itu in Malay, focusing on its morphological, syntactic, semantic, and information-structural features within nonverbal clauses.	cache/arbitrer-644.pdf	txt/arbitrer-644.txt