Glossary - R
Referential (meaning) - a theory of meaning that connects
the meaning of a word to the real world and the things that are in it,
so that the meaning of the word ‘chair’ is the actual chair
itself (the object)
compare: representational
Regular - following the rules of grammar.
for example the plural of ‘printer’ in English is ‘printers’,
following the English rule of making plurals by adding an ‘s’ to
the singular. the plural of ‘tooth’ is ‘teeth’.
this is an irregular plural
for Dutch plurals can be formed with ‘s’ or ‘en’:
‘paard / paarden’, ‘fietser / fietsers’
but there are
also irregular plurals:
‘schip / schepen’ ‘lid / leden’
Representational - theory of meaning that connects the meaning of a word to concepts in the mind, which in their turn may be related to objects in the real world compare: referential
Rewrite rule - a rule is a statement expressing a generalization
about the facts of a language. in a rewrite rule we state that everything
left of the arrow turns into everything right of the arrow in a given
context, which is described after the forward slash
[+voice, +cons] 
[-voice,
+cons] / ___#
(voiced consonant becomes devoiced consonant at the end
of a word)
Right-headed(ness) - the fact that a phrase is head final