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  • Referent
    A referent is the word to which another word in a sentence or text refers. It is an important…
  • Register
    When context results in a commonly recognisable language variety to be produced, the resulting style…
  • Repossession
    Repossession is a linguistic term used in the study of language change. It is used to describe a…
  • Relative clause
    An important type of clause (a group of words built around a subject and verb) that is a variety of…
  • Root words
    A free morpheme to which can be added a affix (a prefix or suffix) that acts to change the root…