Definitions For Rhematic

Adjective

(not comparable) Of or pertaining to a rheme. (linguistics) Of a part of a sentence: provide, providing new information regarding the current theme. , year=1983, volume=I (General Outline), page=364, isbn=978-90-272-3508-4, passage=Rhematic relations are, in a sense, 'intermediate syntactic meanings'. To avoid a proliferation of types of intermediate meanings I do not extend the concept of intermediate syntactic meaning to cover rhematic relations. , year=1997, page=87, isbn=978-0-521-41350-3, passage=In addition, if imitation and recycling tend to turn thematic titles into rhematic ones as I have shown for Situations, the use of sequels and continuations cannot avoid doing so. The title Le Menteur [w:the liar (corneille), the liar: w:pierre corneille, [pierre] corneille] was perfectly thematic; in La Suite du Menteur [Sequel to The Liar: Corneille], which is rhematic (this play is the sequel ...), Le Menteur itself becomes rhematic (this play is the sequel to the play entitled ...). , location=Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa., publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company, year=2003, page=132, isbn=978-90-272-1558-1, passage=Given that rhematic subjects are more common in Czech than in English , the degree of syntactic constancy among rhematic subjects may be supposed to be lower than among subjects counted without respect to their FSP [] role. To test this assumption, I collected 50 rhematic subjects from each original of Čermáková's sources and examined their syntactic counterparts in the other language. (peircean, _, semiotics) Of or pertaining to a sumisign (a sign that represents its object in respect of quality and so, in its signified interpretant, is represented as a character or mark). . (obsolete) Of or pertaining to word formation. (obsolete, rare) In Coleridge's work: relating to the arrangement of words into sentences clearly. (grammar, obsolete, rare) Having a verb for its base; derived from a verb. :

Synonyms

derived from a verb verbal

Noun

RHEMATIC. (countable and uncountable, plural RHEMATICs) (linguistics) The provision of new information regarding the current theme. (chiefly, _, linguistics, obsolete, rare) In the work of (1772–1834): the doctrine or study of arranging words into sentences clearly.