Doctor of philological sciences, professor of the Mordvinian languages department Mordovian state pedagogical institute named after M.E. Evseyev Saransk, Russia [email protected]
Abstract. This article reviews the main structural unit of mikrotekst is a Complex Syntactic Unit (CSU) that represents a Strong Semantic-Syntactic and Modal Unity. An author is defi ned by its Structure, Monotheme; Combining Components: Home page-Commenting part; the Existence of Formal Linkages between components – independent and dependent Proposals; allocation all components to the same modal Scheme.

Keywords: text, microtext, complex syntactic unit, semantics, structure, modality.