Lexis vs Syntax - What's the difference?
lexis | syntax |
(linguistics) The set of all words and phrases in a language.
The vocabulary used by a writer
A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
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(computing, countable) The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
(linguistics) The study of the structure of phrases, sentences and language.
In linguistics terms the difference between lexis and syntax
is that lexis is the set of all words and phrases in a language while syntax is the study of the structure of phrases, sentences and language.lexis
English
(wikipedia lexis)Noun
(en-noun)- In this broadsheet newspaper, the reporter uses a complicated and formal lexis which I find hard to understand sometimes.
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English
(wikipedia syntax)Noun
(syntaxes)- The incorporation of a rule of V MOVEMENT into our description of English Syntax turns out to have fundamental theoretical implications for our overall Theory of Grammar: it means that we are no longer able to posit that the syntactic structure of a sentence can be described in terms of a single Phrase-marker representing its S-structure. For, the postulation of a rule of V-MOVEMENT means that we must recognise at least two different levels of structure in our Theory of Grammar — namely, a level of D-structure'' (formerly known as ‘Deep Structure?) which serves as input to the rule, and a separate level of ''S-structure which is formed by application of the rule.
