Sentence examples for marked theme from inspiring English sources

The marked Theme conflated with the prepositional phrase in a declarative clause to provide circumstantial details about time.

Marked Theme played a crucial role in representing the workplace as a depersonalised, material world.

A marked Theme is a variation of the unmarked whereby focused information is foregrounded.

The prepositional phrase "In 2E market" in Nura's text (Sentence 3 above) is a marked Theme, and it provides a contextual frame.

A Complement, or an Adjunct, which occurs immediately after a lexical verb and before a Subject, is also considered part of a marked Theme.

An unmarked Theme means "the most typical/usual" (Eggins 2007: 318), while a marked Theme refers to "atypical, unusual" choice whereby the Theme in a declarative clause is something other than subject.

Following Halliday's (2004) classification of marked Themes in English, marked Themes in Arabic can be classified into three main types starting from the least towards the most marked: fronted Theme, predicated Theme and identifying Theme.

Halliday (2004) classifies marked Themes into three main categories starting from least towards most marked: fronted Theme, predicated Theme and identifying Theme.

Halliday (2004) and Baker (1992) discuss some rare cases in English where verbs can occur initially as marked Themes in declarative clauses.

As Halliday and Matthiessen (2014) argue, marked Themes have the potentiality of being subjects since they are nominals but have not been selected subjects; yet they are thematic since they are foregrounded as the Theme.

Eggins (ibid: 320) argues that "skillful writers and speakers choose marked Themes to add coherence and emphasis to their text" through the use of Theme Predication, which includes thematic and informational choices.