Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the New York Times & Linguistics!

This is the slogan of The New York Times, found on the newspaper's masthead. It's been used since 1897 to represent the paper's commitment to delivering high-quality journalism.

Noam Chomsky is the linguist who developed the theory of transformational grammar. This theory proposes a set of grammatical rules that can generate all possible sentences in a language.

The New York Times International Edition focuses on international news, including coverage of world events, politics, and global affairs.

A morpheme is the smallest grammatical unit in a language that carries meaning. It may be a word itself or a part of a word.

The New York Times was first published on September 18, 1851. It's one of the oldest newspapers still being published in the United States.

Phonetics is the study of the physical sounds within languages, including their production, transmission, and perception.

Jill Abramson served as the first female executive editor of The New York Times, holding the position from September 2011 to May 2014.

An antonym is a word that has the opposite meaning of another word, such as "hot" and "cold" or "happy" and "sad."

Literary reviews and book-related articles are typically found in the Books section of The New York Times, where various novels, non-fiction works, and other literary pieces are reviewed and discussed.

Syntax refers to the system of rules that governs how sentences in a particular language are constructed. It deals with the structure and formation of sentences, including word order and agreement between subject and verb.