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  • noun Plural form of rheme.

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Examples

  • 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

  • Jurisdynamics: Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered

    Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered 2008

  • Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered

    Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered 2008

  • 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

  • Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • 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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