This type of clause sets up the theme-plus-rheme structure in the form of an equation, where theme = rheme.
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This type of clause sets up the theme-plus-rheme structure in the form of an equation, where theme = rheme.
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If an adjunct is more significant in a sentence, it should be put to the middle group or even used as theme or as rheme.
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To use a pheme with a more or less definite sense and reference is to utter a " rheme ", and to perform a " rhetic act ".
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That the information structure of a clause is divided in this way is generally agreed on, but the boundary between topic / theme and comment / rheme / focus depends on grammatical theory.
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The same is true, considering any other part of sentence, but the Subject and the Verb aren't complementary words typically, and they often serve as the theme and as the rheme respectively.
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The middle words or clauses are more significant words or word groups other than the theme or the rheme, but complementary words or clauses ( both the initial and the final ) are less significant or secondary.
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In the theory of speech acts, attention has especially focused on the illocutionary act, much less on the locutionary and perlocutionary act, and only rarely on the subdivision of the locution into phone, pheme and rheme.
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Chinese can also be considered a topic-prominent language : there is a strong preference for sentences that begin with the theme ( often " given ", or " old ", information ) and end with the rheme ( " new " information ).
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In any case, in that system, icon, index, and symbol were classed by category of how they stood for the dynamic object, while rheme, dicisign, and argument were classed by the category of how they stood to the final or normal interpretant.
