Sanchez-Stockhammer (2023)

Why study neologisms from Star Wars? (select all that apply)

• There is a gap in the research on Star Wars

• Fiction is the main source of linguistic innovation in real life

• Star Wars is important culturally

• Star Wars is the saga that provided the most neologisms in English

What are some of the criteria for the selection of lexical items to study? (select all that apply)

• Sufficiently high frequency

• Sufficiently low frequency

• Whether they are formed with English morphemes

• Representation in the OED

• Whether they are proper names or common nouns

Which of these items is not investigated here?

• to the dark side

• lightsaber

• padawan

• Jedi

• droid

True or False? Sanchez-Stockhammer only uses corpora for American English.

• True

• False

True or False? The spelling of Star Wars-derived lexical items is standardized.

• True

• False

Among the corpora used, the largest is...

• BNC

• BNC Spoken 2014

• COCA

• COHA

Which of these instances of padawan is the most removed from the Star Wars universe?

• From Clone Wars (2009): No, it's okay. I understand. I'm the Padawan. You're the Master.

• From https://starwars.fandom.com: Skywalker was much older than the usual Padawan,

• • The Flash to Cisco Ramon in The Flash (2015): - Wow! That’s how it’s done, young Padawan.

• From The Phantom Menace (1999): Be mindful of the living Force, young Padawan

Which of these statements is false?

• Most of the items under consideration have increased in frequency over time.

• The expression dark side did not exist before the first Star Wars movie.

• The item used in the least innovative way is lightsaber.

• Padawan collocates with young

In concluding, the author argues that... (tick all that apply)

• Vocabulary from Star Wars will stop increasing in frequency.

• The vocabulary of Star Wars reflects its universe

• Star Wars avoids estrangement

• Star Wars vocabulary items are acquiring new meanings