Global Journal of Human Social Science, G: Linguistics and Education, Volume 22 Issue 9

Figure 1 illustrates a system network of THEME in three major types of indicative clauses in Myanmar, such as declarative, interrogative, and exclamative. Figure 1: A system network of THEME in indicative clauses in Myanmar. ii. Theme in imperative clauses Construction of the THEME System of Myanmar © 2022 Global Journals Volume XXII Issue IX Version I 56 ( ) Global Journal of Human Social Science - Year 2022 G c. Adjunct as Theme အ denayt atann shi-larr. today class have- PRS.INT.SENTSUF Theme Rheme „Is there any class today?‟ (SEAlang Library Burmese Corpus) (8) winlar-bar. come.in- POLMARK Theme „Come in!‟ (SEAlang Library Burmese Corpus) The communicative purpose of the imperative is to ask the other person to perform the action. In Myanmar, the unmarked Theme in the positive imperative is the Predicator realized by the verbal group expressing the action to be performed by the addressee, while the one in the negative imperative is the Predicator along with the pre- verbal negator /ma-/ and the post-verbal particle /-nèt/ (cf. Examples 8 and 9). As Examples (8) and (9) show, there is no Rheme in thematic structures of Myanmar imperatives whose unmarked Theme is the Predicator.