Symbols, abbreviations and writing conventions

| C condition part of a linguistic rule L a particular language L a particular lexical unit «L» a particular fictitious lexeme (in the deep-syntactic structure) L(‘X’) a particular lexical unit L expressing the meaning ‘X’ L(x1, x2, ..., xn) (x1, x2, ..., xn) is the syntactics of lexical unit L, x1, x2, ..., xn being syntactic features ˹L1 ... Ln˺ a particular idiom L1 ... Ln L1–sem→L2 L2 directly depends on L1 semantically L1–synt→L2 L2 directly depends on L1 syntactically L1–⋯→L2 L2 indirectly depends on L1 L1 L2 L1 and L2 are co-referential (= L1 and L2 have the same referent) NB important but tangential (= logically not necessary) information r a particular surface-syntactic dependency relation R Rheme (communicative value) RDSynt deep-syntactic Rheme (communicative value) RSem semantic Rheme (communicative value) ‘σ’ a particular semanteme ‘σ’ a particular semanteme that is communicatively dominant within the semanteme configuration it belongs to ‘σ̃ ’ a particular configuration of semantemes T Theme (communicative value) TDSynt deep-syntactic Theme (communicative value) TSem semantic Theme (communicative value) «they» the expression «they» represents the indefinite-personal pronoun, such as they (in the sentence In Yorkshire they say “eh” whenever they don’t understand something), Fr. on, Ger. man {xi} a set of elements xi «x» x, a feature of syntactics of a linguistic sign Symbols, abbreviations and writing conventions