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thematization|ˌθiːmətaɪˈzeɪʃən|
[f. thematize v. + -ation.]
1. The action of thematize v. 2.
1955T. Burrow Sanskrit Lang. iv. 153 This tendency to thematisation had already been operating in the prehistoric period. 1972Language XLVIII. 399 The thematization process..is triggered by violations of canons of permissible plus and minus values of pronominal features for non-ergator and indirect object. 1977Ibid. LIII. 50 Thus the form *somos can be regarded as a partial thematization of the copula.
2. The action of thematize v. 1.
1959J. Firbas in Brno Studies in English I. 52 Whereas only two elements ([the] girl and broke) of the three in The girl broke a vase allow of thematization, any of the three elements occurring in The girl broke the vase can be thematized. 1969K. H. Wagner Generative Grammatical Studies in Old Eng. Lang. i. 50 In the abstract structure Th and Rh are empty places, i.e. they will not be expanded by subsequent rules. These places will be filled with constituents from the nucleus by transformation rules which may be termed rules of thematization and rhematization, respectively. 1977J. Lyons Semantics II. xii. 507 It is certainly true that the processes that different languages make available for the thematization of one expression rather than another frequently involve putting the expression earlier rather than later in the utterance. |