Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See the extract.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun linguistics The part of a sentence that provides further information regarding the topic.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I think he sees focus as a synonym of topic (rheme?), and not as a synonym of what you have to say about it.
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Again: rheme (by which Peirce meant a relation of arbitrary adicity or arity) was a first, proposition was a second, and argument was a third.
Nobody Knows Nothing 2009
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A technical explanation of two syntactic phenomena: word order and topic-prominent languages' systematic tools for effecting theme-rheme structures.
Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered 2008
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Most languages can adopt theme-rheme structure idiosyncratically — as for English, we often use as for theme constructions — but topic-prominent languages use systematic changes in syntax or even dedicated morpological elements such as the Japanese clitic particle -wa to mark themes and to set them apart from rhemes.
Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered 2008
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Independent of syntactic word order, theme-rheme or topic-comment sentence structure has the potential to affect the presentation of semantic elements in most languages.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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A technical explanation of two syntactic phenomena: word order and topic-prominent languages' systematic tools for effecting theme-rheme structures.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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Independent of syntactic word order, theme-rheme or topic-comment sentence structure has the potential to affect the presentation of semantic elements in most languages.
Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered 2008
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Most languages can adopt theme-rheme structure idiosyncratically — as for English, we often use as for theme constructions — but topic-prominent languages use systematic changes in syntax or even dedicated morpological elements such as the Japanese clitic particle -wa to mark themes and to set them apart from rhemes.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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Further, just as we can think of a rheme as an unsaturated predicate, and a dicent as a proposition, we can think of the delome as an argument or rule of inference.
Peirce's Theory of Signs Atkin, Albert 2006
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And finally, since that sign will also determine an interpretant it can be classified as either a rheme, a dicent, or a delome.
Peirce's Theory of Signs Atkin, Albert 2006
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