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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">global-journal-of-human-social-science</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Global Journal of Human-Social Science</journal-title>
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<issn publication-format="print">0975-587X</issn>
<issn publication-format="electronic">2249-460X</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Global Journals Publishing Group Incorporated</publisher-name></publisher>
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<article-title>Construction of the THEME System of Myanmar</article-title>
<subtitle>Thematic Structure in Myanmar Functional Grammar</subtitle>
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<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Win</surname><given-names>Lai Yee</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1" />
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<aff id="aff1">MYANMAR, Department of English, Sittwe University, Rakhine State, Myanmar</aff>
<pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-11-01">
<day>01</day>
<month>11</month>
<year>2022</year>
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<volume>22</volume>
<issue>G9</issue>
<fpage>51</fpage>
<lpage>66</lpage>
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<kwd>Theme</kwd>
<kwd>Systemic Functional Linguistics</kwd>
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<p>The main purpose of this paper is to construct the THEME system of Myanmar following the system network for Theme in English proposed by Halliday (1985, 1994; Halliday and Matthiessen 2004, 2014) within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. It is found that the THEME system of Myanmar consists of two sub-systems: Theme status and Theme composition. For the former, there are two major types: unmarked and enhanced Themes, while for the latter, Theme can be presented in two ways: simple and multiple Themes. Unmarked Themes in Myanmar clauses are Subject, Complement, Adjunct, hypotactic clause, Predicator (only in imperative), and Ba-element (only in interrogative). The enhanced Theme in Myanmar contains two major types: equative or preposed attribute. Multiple Theme includes textual, interpersonal and topical Themes which can be chosen as a point of departure of the clause. The findings may shed light on the realization of the textual metafunction of Myanmar language.</p>
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