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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lexis
noun
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▪ But as I have shown, the function of grammar depends upon its being subservient to lexis.
▪ But the composition of the lexis is not tackled.
▪ In other words, lexis is put to the service of grammar.
▪ The lexis, in this respect, acts upon the grammar.
▪ The distinction between grammar and lexis which we used in the last chapter cuts across this distinction between levels.
▪ The general issue arising here concerns the way in which lexis and grammar act upon each other in the determination of meaning.
▪ The relationship between grammar and lexis Grammar, then, can be seen as a resource for the adaptation of lexis.
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lexis

n. 1 (context linguistics English) The set of all words and phrases in a language. 2 The vocabulary used by a writer

WordNet
lexis

n. all of the words in a language; all word forms having meaning or grammatical function

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Lexis

Lexis may refer to:

  • Lexis (linguistics), the total bank of words and phrases of a particular language, the artifact of which is known as a lexicon
  • Lexis (Aristotle), a complete group of words in a language
  • LexisNexis, part of the LexisNexis online information database
  • Lexis diagram a demographic visualisation for showing age and period of cohort members on the same figure
Lexis (linguistics)

In generative linguistics, a lexis or lexicon is the complete set of all possible words in a language. In this sense, "child", "children", "child's" and "children's" are four different words in the English lexicon. In systemic-functional linguistics, a lexis or lexical item is the way we call a particular thing or a type of phenomena. Since a lexis from a systemic-functional perspective is a way of calling, it can be realised by multiple grammatical words such as "The White House", "New York City" or "heart attack". Moreover, since a lexis is a way of calling, different words such as "child", "children", "child's" and "children's" may realise the same lexical item.

Lexis (Aristotle)

In philosophical discourse, lexis (from the Greek: λέξις "word") is a complete group of words in a language, vocabulary, the total set of all words in a language, and all words that have meaning or a function in grammar.

Usage examples of "lexis".

The two women had taken an instant dislike to one another upon meeting many years before and that dislike had grown steadily worse since Amala had become the consort of Commodore Lexis, the OIC of the Ministry of Public Education.