Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
índices temáticos
English translation:
theme markers
Portuguese term
índices temáticos
| 5 +1 | theme markers |
Muriel Vasconcellos
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| 4 +3 | thematic indices |
António Ribeiro
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| 5 | thematic indicators |
Joon Oh
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Proposed translations
United States
Each translation a gem!
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
Works in: Spanish to English, Portuguese to English
theme markers
Here we are dealing with the theme (as in theme-rheme), one of the keystones of functional linguistics. It also happens to have been the subject of my 600-page Ph.D. thesis -- so I'm the last person to explain it briefly!
Examples of the term "theme markers":
I will show that **coocurrence of clitics and theme markers** does ... Halle and Marantz (1993) argue that **Potawatomi theme markers can be analyzed as** agreement ...
www.ling.uni-osnabrueck.de/trommer/chains.pdf
Development of **Semantic Theme Markers** for Desiderative Predicates in Japanese [I]Yu Hirata[I] Grammaticalization and Synchronic Variation: A Unified Account ...
www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/15461.ctl
Multiple pitch accents in a (major or minor) prosodic phrase may be different. types, but must either be **all theme-markers or all rheme-markers**: ...
www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~steedman/tl/tlnotes09ahandout.pdf
[MV note: I don't happen to think there is such a thing as a "rheme-marker".]
nverse theme markers. These are summarized in the following table. ... and **inverse theme markers** in Blackfoot. In each case, the interaction represents an ...
www.ucalgary.ca/lingcpl/volume_26/Bliss_Jesney_paper.pdf
attested). consists. of the sufltix -pan, which appears after the. **theme markers**. anâ personal suffixes. and. before. the third person plural sufh ...
www.cs.chalmers.se/~harald2/grammars/nipmuck.pdf
Professional in Oil & Gas Industry
Native in: Portuguese 
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese, Portuguese to English
thematic indices
thematic indicators
thematic indicator is more used than thematic marker.
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