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These are the main grammatical aspects of texts. The text is studied in greater detail by a special branch of linguistics, text linguistics, by literary studies, and by stylistics. For example, in stylistics, various images, allusions, compositional peculiarities and other stylistic devices are treated as the means which contribute to the semantic unity and structural cohesion of the text. Various textual categories are distinguished, such as the category of textual time, the category of author, modality of the text, etc. It must be noted, however, that from the point of view of grammar, the sentence remains the main element of syntax, while the text is the sphere of its functional manifestation; it is through combining different sentence-predications that topical reflections of reality are achieved in all the numerous forms of lingual communication.

Key terms: coherent stretch of speech, topical (semantic) unity, semantico-syntactic cohesion, monologue sequences, dialogue sequences, supra-phrasal unity, complex syntactic unity, supra-sentential construction, dialogue unity, cumulation, cumulative connections, cumuleme, occursive connections, occurseme, prospective (cataphoric) cumulation, retrospective (anaphoric) cumulation, conjunctive cumulation (conjunctions, adverbial and parenthetical connectors), correlation (correlative cumulation), substitution, representation, succeedent, antecedent, leading sentence, sequential sentence, communicative unity (the theme-rheme arrangement of sentences in a cumuleme), linear (progressive) and parallel connections, theme-rheme chain, dicteme, stylization, intonational delimitation, paragraph, parcellation, inner cumulation, macro-topic (micro-topic), macro-text (pleni-text), micro-text (parti-text)

Ривлина А.А. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка