| 释义 |
rhematic, a. and n. rare.|riːˈmætɪk|
[ad. Gr. ῥηµατικός, f. ῥηµατ-, ῥῆµα word, verb.]
A. adj.
1. a. Pertaining to the formation of words.
1856Max Müller Chips (1867) II. 9 This period, during which expressions were coined for the most necessary ideas,..forms the first in the history of man,..and we call it the Rhematic Period. 1882L. Campbell Life Clerk Maxwell 379, I think a good deal may be learned from the names of colours,..and I think it is remarkable that the rhematic instinct has been so much more active..on the less refrangible side of primary green.
b. Formed on verbs.
1877F. Hall Adjs. in -able 47 Such [adjectives in -able] as are derived from verbs deserve the precedence. And these, to avoid the ambiguousness of the term verbal, I shall take leave to denominate rhematic.
2. Of or pertaining to a rheme.
1959J. Firbas in Brno Studies in English I. 39 The thematic elements are less important..than the rhematic elements. 1969K. H. Wagner Generative Gram. Studies Old Eng. Lang. i. 49 Although there can be no definite proof, it is to be assumed that the rhematic constituent carries the primary stress. 1977J. Lyons Semantics II. xii. 507 There is a very high correlation..between occupying initial position and being thematic, rather than rhematic.
B. n. The science of sentences or propositions.
1830Coleridge Table-t. 23 Sept., The object of rhetoric is persuasion,—of logic, conviction,—of grammar, significancy. A fourth term is wanting, the rhematic, or logic of sentences. |