There won't be enough time for people to do extra in-class presentations (which were intended to count for one of the five assignments for the course). So, here's an alternative.

You can pick a paper that is not one of the papers we are reading for class and do a long reading reaction on the paper. This kind of long reading reaction, unlike ones for papers that have been assigned in class, may simply summarize the contents of the paper (or a 15-25-page chunk thereof, if it's longer than that).

Think of this option as putting down on paper the kind of information you would say to the class if you were doing an in-class presentation of the material. So, you need to summarize the theoretical proposal and explain the author's justification for that proposal (i.e., why do they talk about the particular languages they talk about?)

You may do more than one of these reading reports. However, be forewarned: it takes time to read through a paper and understand it to the point that you can explain it to someone else. (Remember what it was like when you prepared for your in-class article presentation.)

Also, the aspects of the paper you choose to discuss in your report should be relevant to the concerns of the course. For some of the extra readings, suggestions are given as to what parts of the paper would be good to focus on (on the Reading List page; see links below).

A list of extra papers is available on the Reading List page of our class web site -- click on the Supplementary Readings link here or on the Reading List page itself to go to the correct part of the page. There are six papers listed as of April 12; a few more may be added later as well. If you find a paper on your own that you would like to do, check with me first, but that's probably fine.