May 10: Last week

I wanted to cover some other topics – e.g., what the research on spelling errors tells us about morphology (see e.g. this paper), or what slips of the tongue may tell us about morphology (see e.g. this open access overview – the whole book might be of interest for you if you are into these sorts of things), or what the approach called Naïve Discriminative Learning tells us about language & morphology (spoiler: it basically claims that no units such as words and morphemes are needed, see e.g. this paper). If you are interested, you are obviously welcome to have a look at these papers, and I can provide some further references.

Anyway, I was thinking that, given the current circumstances, maybe I do not need to bother you with some extra work at the very end of the semester. So, this week, please focus on a) making sure you have gone through all the materials on moodle, including the exercises (which will be part of your grade) and the assigned readings (the knowledge of which might be required in the final test); b) finishing all the assignments (which will be part of your grade); c) revising for the final test.

As stated in the syllabus, the final written test has no time limit, you can use your notes etc. However, you should complete the test in one session, and on your own. You can expect some multiple choice questions as well as short answer questions. The test will be available on Moodle from May 17 on, and I think it's in everyone's interest to finish it asap and not postpone it, unless this is really necessary. However, since the course is officially concluded by an exam, you can finish the requirements by September 2022 in theory.