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- noun Plural form of
rheme .
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Signs are rhematic signs (also called “sumisigns” and “rhemes”), dicisigns (also called “quasi-propositions”), or arguments (also called “suadisigns”), accordingly as they are predicational/relational in character, propositional in character, or argumentative in character.
Nobody Knows Nothing 2009
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Jurisdynamics: Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered
Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered 2008
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Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered
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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Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered
Archive 2008-02-01 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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