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What is a lexis?

What is a lexis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (linguistics) The set of all words and phrases in a language.
  2. The vocabulary used by a writer
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As a result of this abstraction, we experience the probability of the figures, which, however, have no place in our lexis.
Because she feels that historical facts were creatively interpreted in the run up to the conflict, she invented her own lexis to convey her stance.
According to Mr. Schaik, the influence of the Dutch was there in the Indian and Sri Lankan languages which had absorbed a few Dutch words in their lexis.
This grammar is the first pedagogic grammar to integrate syntax and lexis using corpus data.
But there was a separate dispute far less notorious as to the quality of the lexis.
This is the path set out by Cheikh Anta Diop, who has enriched the lexis of Wolof in physics.

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