ABSTRACT
This chapter is designed to carry the reader of literature to the brink of linguistics. In recent years a number of linguists have attempted to describe linguistic features as they occur in Uterary texts, hoping that their descriptions might help a reader to understand and appreciate the text. A term is needed to indicate a sentence in which the onset of a predictable a is delayed or in which its progress is interrupted. Pseudo-linguistic literature is already too full of naive correlations between a noise or a structure and explicit meanings. There are no numerals, and no nouns occurring pre-head. The paucity of lexical comment reflects the fact that objective description of vocabulary patterns is still impossible. The chapter recognize four primary elements of clause structure, the subject, predicator, complement and adjunct. The sequence of the elements of clause structure is pretty much what would be expected in everyday English.
