PART 1: GLOBAL VIEW OF TEXT SHAPING ...7 // A Text-Level Approach to Sentence Complexes (English-Czech Interface)..9 - Jarmila Tárnyiková // Discourse Markers: A Text Perspective ...23 - Andrea Ryšavá // PART 2: LEXICAL COHESION ...39 // The Role of Terms in Text: Investigating Terms from the Textual Perspective ...41 - Michal Kubánek // Lexical Patterns in the Texts of the European Union ...55 - Ondrej Molnár // PART 3: STRUCTURAL PATTERNING IN TEXT ...79 // The Have Construction/s: A Pilot Corpus-Based Study ...81 - Michaela Martinková // The Infinitive and the -ing Form after the Verbs Begin and Start: The Case of Cry ...99 - Jaroslav Macháček, Michaela Martinková // The Ingressive Phasal Verbs Begin and Start through the Historical Perspective ...111 - Michaela Cakányová // Competition between the Present Tense and the Present Perfect in the Construction It + Is/Has Been + Time Expression + Since-Clause: A Corpus-Based Study ...121 - Markéta Janebová // Works Cited ...145 // Subject Index ...153 // Resumé 157