Teaching LEXIS

Contents
• What is LEXIS?
• Related terms
• Teach Lexis <Vocabulary or Grammar>
• Grammar and Lexis
• Vocabulary, Grammar and Lexis
DEFINITIONS
Oxford Dictionary

The total stock of word in a language

The level of language consisting of grammar or syntax

Techanical

In linguistics, the words of a language can be referred to as the lexis of that

language

British

The totality of vocabulry items in a language including all forms of having lexical
Meaning or grammatical function

American

The full vocabulary of a language or of a group ,individual,field or study

 Terms
• LEXICOLOGY
The study of lexis and lexicon
• LEXICON
A collection of words
• LEXICALIZATION
The process of adding words and word patterns to the lexicon of
a language
Vocabulary(OR)Grammar

Computer Go off

Water Pass exam

Stock Big Boss

market
 Grammar and Lexis
• Lexis and morphology are listed alongside syntax and
grammar because these aspects of language are
interrelated........
Example: Cats (plural noun)
eats(a form of verb used in the third
person)
The morphology of the word is strongly connected with grammar
or the structural rules that govern how words and phrases are
related each other.
 LEXIS,
VOCABULARY,GRAMMAR
Vocabulary words (dog, Green, wash)
two- or three- word combination
(sky blue,compact disc)

Grammar Generalisible patterns of the

language
New phrases and sentences out
of word combinations and the
grammartical features
Express a precise meaning
Lexis Traditional single word vocabulary
items(book, go)
Common “going-together patterns” of
words also known as collocations
(blonde hair,traffic jam)
longer combinations of words that are
typically used together as single item
also known as chunks or multi-word item
(someone you talk to,on-the-spot decision
Lexis and Grammar ,
Words and Sentences
proceed hands in hands
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