ABSTRACT
This is a preliminary exploration of a new position on the structure of written text. It analyses a newspaper article by Randolph Quirk.
As a convenient starting point, let us assume that the text at any moment is seen as the sentence currently being interpreted. A reader is attending to one short stretch of the text at any time (and so, no doubt, is the writer when writing – at least the writer is responsible for making the text interpretable sentence by sentence).1
