a situation type describing the weather that is typically construed as thetic. Examples: It's raining and The wind is blowing are expressions of weather. Weather is sometimes described as an event without any ( salient) participants. Its tendency to be construed as thetic is attributed to the fact that weather is difficult to divide into a topic and a comment and be construed as topic–comment information packaging. (Sections 11.3.1, 11.3.3)