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Lexis

British pronunciation/lˈɛksɪs/
American pronunciation/ˈɫɛksɪs/
Lexis
[NOUN]
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(linguistics) all the words and phrases of a language, including the function words

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1They didn't have Lexis.
2Vocabulary or lexis, which is just two different ways of referring to the same thing.
3At the local level we cognitively process the Lexis, grammar and syntactic form and meaning of the sentences.
4So it's kind of a liberal point of view, Westlaw or Lexis.
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