rheme

[reem]

rheme

[reem]
noun Linguistics.
comment (def. 6).

Origin:
1890–95; < Greek rhḗma saying, word
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Rheme is always a great word to know.
So is umlaut. Does it mean:
a mark (?) used as a diacritic over a vowel, as ?, ?, ?, to indicate a vowel sound different from that of the letter without the diacritic
a structural representation of a sentence in the form of an inverted tree, with each node of the tree labeled according to the phrasal constituent it represents
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rheme (riːm)
 
n
linguistics Compare theme the constituent of a sentence that adds most new information, in addition to what has already been said in the discourse. The rheme is usually, but not always, associated with the subject
 
[C20: from Greek rhēma that which is said]

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Main Entry:  rheme
Part of Speech:  n
Definition:  See rhema
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