More Examples, Please!

[stoutfellow]

The Tensor complains that linguistics instructors seem to use the same examples of the same phenomena over and over again, and presents a brief quiz to make the point. There are twenty-three questions, of the form "Name a language that..."; the prediction is that anyone with training in linguistics is likely to give most of the same responses.

My last formal training in linguistics was twenty-seven years ago. I hit eleven of the twenty-three. I think the Tensor's on to something. (Hmm. I wonder how mathematicians - say, group theorists - would rate on a similar test?)