Lexis – What is it anyway?
Seriously… What the hell is Lexis?!?! I thought a Lexis was an expensive car! Now you’re telling me that it’s, actually, yet ANOTHER thing that I have to learn about English?!?!
Well, not really… In fact, you actually started learning Lexis even before you started to learn grammar. But for some reason, all of your previous teachers decided not to tell you about Lexis…
Let’s see what good ‘ole Wikipedia tells us about the term Lexis. |According to them, they say that Lexis is…
And, So What Does That Mean?
Simply put – Lexis is EVERYTHING else that is NOT grammar. Such As (in alphabetical order):
…And a bunch of other things which actually fall into the categories listed above. Such as: Axioms, Adages, Proverbs, Figures of Speech, Maxims, and a bunch of other stuff.
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