It was somewhat a relief to finish class this past Thursday. It was a stressful weekend and week prior to it with work related responsibilities, another grad course's assignments and getting done with this course's assignments on time. My favorite part of class on Thursday was when the native Chinese speakers took over and talked about our exercises that focused on Chinese pictographic characters. It was fun seeing them draw their characters online. I have a hard time understanding how Chinese can be written quickly. Also, given the one example with the words that all ended in -ing, it made me think how difficult working with the Chinese tones would be.
As far as morphology is concerned, I really enjoyed the content in this chapter and the focus on lexical labels and such. I learned about a group called SPOGG--Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar. I'm thinking I may join. Maybe Will Smith is a member, too.
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I also enjoyed the Chineese presentation but it was so interesting that even among four of them there was not an aggreement about what the answer could be. Did they just guess some of them? I could not follow it.
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