Hey all,
here's an update on my conlanging class! In the last two lessons we discussed verbal morphology. At both of these days many of my students were sick or busy with exams, so sometimes we were down to exactly one (1) student attending my class. It was a bit sad, but nevertheless we had interesting discussions.
In lesson 9, we began talking about valency and transitivity. I also introduced some preliminary names for the syntactic roles of verb arguments to facilitate the discussion. We briefly derailed onto morphosyntactic alignment and ergativity, concepts I wanted to introduce way later. But it didn't hurt, and now one of my students has a bit of an advantage.
In lesson 10 we continued our verbal odyssey and mainly discussed verbal agreement. With a quick tangentially related note on Georgian and Kayardild suffixaufnahme we closed off the last lesson before Easter break.
See you guys next time,
Fiat lingua!