On the scope of theticity in Latin

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After looking once again into the various frameworks claimed to be housing the notion of theticity and at its early codification at the end of the nineteenth century by Anton Marty, the lines that follow leap, with this wide assortment in Latin exemplified by one variant of impersonal verbs, straight ahead to some of the recent evolvements in linguistics of the last decades. The still highly partial overview of theticity marking is here followed by two revisions I propose for the notion of the non-divisibility of certain Latin clauses – whether it is considered from the informational or the logical-psychological perspective: a) Critical remarks as to the widely accepted criterion of ‘all-newness’ in the way it materializes at sentence-initial position; b) A suggested expansion of the thetic domain by including the process of nominalization, which due to often intervening author’s personal style preferences is not to be applied lightmindedly, remains a promising domain to dive into for further Latin thetics.