$$ Symbol ::= Identifier .
The central data type in Malaga is the symbol. It is used for describing syntactic or semantic properties of an allomorph, a word, or a sentence. A symbol is an identifier like ``Verb'', ``reflexive'', `` Sing_1''. The symbols ``nil'', ``yes'', ``no'', `` symbol'', ``string'', ``number'', `` list'', and ``record'' are predefined and have special meanings.