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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.
Marked Themes add coherence and emphasis to texts through the use of Theme Predication, which includes thematic and informational choices.
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We started the analysis of the individual ratings by excluding the theme that the most participants considered replaceable and marking the theme that replaced it.
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