noun: (linguistics) The provision of new information regarding the current theme.
noun: (chiefly linguistics, obsolete, rare) In the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834): the doctrine or study of arranging words into sentences clearly.
adjective: (linguistics) Of a part of a sentence: providing new information regarding the current theme.
adjective: (Peircean semiotics) Of or pertaining to a sumisign (a sign that represents its object in respect of quality and so, in its signified interpretant, is represented as a character or mark).
adjective: (obsolete) Of or pertaining to word formation.
adjective: (obsolete, rare) In Coleridge's work: relating to the arrangement of words into sentences clearly.
adjective: (grammar, obsolete, rare) Having a verb for its base; derived from a verb.