Language Evolution and Authority in Lexicography Quiz

Samuel Johnson is credited with compiling the first English dictionary.

Currency exchange rates do not influence language evolution.

The study of the historical development of words is known as etymology.

Archaic refers to a word or phrase that has fallen out of common use.

H. L. Mencken published the influential work 'The American Language.'

Aristotle coined the term 'onomatopoeia.'

Homographs are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.

Pejoration describes the phenomenon where a word takes on a more negative meaning over time.

A portmanteau is a word formed by combining parts of two or more words.

The primary aim of descriptive lexicography is to document and analyze language as it is used.

Orthographic drift is not a type of language change.

Ferdinand de Saussure is considered the father of modern linguistics.

Noam Chomsky proposed the idea of 'deep structure' and 'surface structure' in language.

In lexicography, a concordance is a dictionary that provides the meanings of words in the order of their occurrence in a particular text.

James Murray authored the 'Oxford English Dictionary' (OED).