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Being (n.) is not always one word; in Ewe the notion is divided among several verbs, and no single verb holds it.
Being (n.) was given a philosophical vocation by the structure of Greek, and Ewe offers only a narrow notion of it.
A Category (n.) is, Benveniste argues, a habit of one language passing itself off as the structure of thought.
The Copula (n.) was once a verb with a lexical meaning of its own, before it fell to a mere linking role.
The Copula (n.) has no natural link with the sense of 'to exist', Benveniste said; the real puzzle is why a verb ever came to carry that logical link at all.
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Nourishment (n.) in Greek also meant curdling — trephein gala, to let milk thicken — because both mean letting something reach the state it tends toward.
A Pause (n.) does the work of the verb 'to be': a zero morpheme that asserts two terms identical.
Projection (n.) is what Aristotle took for permanent conditions of thought: a conceptual image of one language's state.
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Rhythm (n.) in early Greek meant form not as a fixed shape but as the form taken by what is moving and fluid — so the lyric poets could ask what rhythm governs a man.