| 释义 |
non-theˈmatic, a.
[non- 3.]
1. Linguistics. = athematic a. 1.
1933E. H. Sturtevant Compar. Gram. Hittite Lang. vi. 217 There is also, as in I[ndo-] E[uropean], a distinction between thematic and non-thematic conjugation. 1955T. Burrow Sanskrit Lang. vii. 318 The verbs are divided into two major types, (a) non-thematic..and (b) thematic.
b. Not conveying new information; constituting part of the rheme; = rhematic a.
1959Brno Studies in English I. 43 The indefinite article and its zero plural variant..play an important part in that co-operation of means which may render non-thematic even such a subject as occurs at the very beginning, or very near the beginning, of the sentence.
2. Mus. = athematic a. 2.
1946G. Abraham in A. L. Bacharach Brit. Mus. 55 Neptune, the Mystic, which shares with Saturn the distinction of being one of the most remarkable purely impressionistic, practically non-thematic pieces of music ever written. |