rheme
/riːm
/noun Linguistics
The part of a clause that gives information about the theme.It is structured as a series of messages consisting of what Halliday calls themes and rhemes....
- Many of the basic concepts employed in the Prague School functional analyses such as theme/rheme, topic/comment, and given/new do not seem to be clearly defined.
- The purpose of scanning a scene in this manner is to pick out details and their relations to one another (themes and rhemes).
Origin
Late 19th century: from Greek rhēma 'that which is said'.
- vassalage
- vast
- vastation
- vastitude
- get one's oats
- get one's own back
- get one's rocks off
- get one's shit together
- get one's skates on
- get one's tongue round
- get one's wires crossed
- get one's wires (or lines) crossed
- get on (or along) like a house on fire
- get on someone's nerves
- get on someone's tits
- get on someone's wick
- get on to
- get on top of
- get (or be) even
- get (or be given) a guernsey
- get (or be given) the gate
- get (or be) in on the act
- get (or be or go) beyond a joke
- get (or be) shot of
- get (or be) spliced