1. THE SENTENCE IS UNIQUE AMONG LINGUISTIC UNITS
The sentence is unique among other linguistic units: unlike words and phrases sentences don't exist as prefabricated units (
the sentence doesn’t exist in the system of language as a ready-made unit); there is no 'vocabulary list of sentences', sentences are created every time a new in the act of communication following certain sentence patterns. Therefore
the sentence, unlike the word, is not a unit of language proper; it is a chunk of text built up as a result of speech-making process, out of different units of language, first of all words, which are the immediate constituents of contextually bound sentences.
