Showing posts with label Herman Melville. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 19 December 2018

Marked Theme In An Existential Clause


No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.
 — Herman Melville


No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea
though many there be
who have tried it
α
x β
α
β


though
many
there
be

Existent

Process: existential
Theme: marked
Rheme

Complement
Subject
Finite
Predicator


Note that the Subject is not "unmarked Theme".