Tuesday 24 February 2015

Predicated Theme Vs Postposed Subject


it
‘s
your good luck
that
nobody
noticed
Sub-
Finite
Complement
-ject
Identi…
Process
Identifier
…fied


Ambiguously:


(a) Predicated Theme (agnate to nobody noticed your good luck)


it
‘s
your good luck
that
nobody
noticed
Theme: predicated
Rheme




(b) Postposed Subject (agnate to the fact that nobody noticed is your good luck)

it
‘s
your good luck
that
nobody
noticed
Theme
Rheme
Afterthought


See Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 97-8).

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