Hey all,
this post shall serve as an update for my last two lessons. I wasn't able to post anything as the exam phase just ended and I was kinda stressed out. Anyhow! In the fourth lesson on November 30th, we finally discussed the concept of phonemes, talked about allophony and minimal pairs and watched some videos on the topic. At the end we had some time left, so I decided to give them a sneak peek on the next slides, which were about morphology. So we quickly went over glossing and then called it a day.
In the fifth lesson, we then started with a revision of the phonology stuff, as well as of glossing. I then presented the different variants of morphological typology, viz. the analytic-synthetic and fusional-agglutinative spectra. I recently learned that there are some more modern notions in that field, but I decided to teach them the traditional ones since those are the ones that are most widely used by other conlangers. So yeah, that's it!
See you after winter break,
Fiat Lingua!