The Copula in English and Arabic Is a Common Pathway to Go

Some languages have more than one strategy for a copula can be in somewhat free alternation, but it's most quite often they have one strategy in some kind of restricted environment and other environment. I think, for instance, of Arabic and Hebrew is kind of the same in that they have a direct connection in the present, but as soon as you want to use the copula in the past, you have to have an actual verb being used in Arabic server can or something like that. In those languages which have zero copula, it's almost never used for location. We'll get to that in a moment if that's a common pathway to go.