March Resolution Review

I've decided to keep track of all my submitted papers here rather than on the whiteboard on my desk, since then the whiteboard can be used for actual white-board purposes, like writing down logic. So, I've added the four things which were submitted last year on which I'm still awaiting responses.

Title	Submitted	Revision requested	Resubmitted	Accepted
"Logic and Semantic Theory in the High Middle Ages"	11 June 2013			invited book chapter
"Paul of Venice on a Puzzle About Uncertainty"	24 June 2013
"Sit Verum and Counterfactual Reasoning	13 August 2013	10 March 2014
"A Medieval Epistemic Puzzle"	02 October 2013
"The Logic of Categorematic and Syncategorematic Infinity"	14 January 2014
"Medieval Destinations: Lumbini"	28 January 2014			18 February 2014
"Reasoning About Obligations in Obligationes: A Formal Approach"	27 February 2014 (abstract only)
"Obligationes" (with Catarina Dutilh Novaes)	27 March 2014	28 March 2014		/td>

I had a paper ready to submit for March (other than the ob chapter), but a friend asked to read it, and I'm waiting on her comments before I submit. It'll probably go out early next week.

Removed MLitM from the list, since I received a (fairly quick for the journal in question) rejection on 11 Mar. I feel I still haven't identified the correct venue for it, as it's rather idiosyncratic.

Here's another table that will hopefully fill in over the course of the year:

Title	Publication info

Monday, March 31, 2014

I had two goals for today: To finish reading Malink, and to start my slides for Thursday.

Reading

• Finished Malink. Whoo!

Writing

• Created file to start writing my review.
• Worked on slides for Thursday.

Revising

Refereeing

• Since I think some of my first-chosen referees are going to fall through, spent some time looking for alternates.

Teaching

• Oh, joy, final papers from last semester's seminar have started trickling in.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Lookit me, getting work done on the weekend!

Reading

Writing

• Vortexians are planning to submit a proposal for a themed section in Onoma. I wrote up a first draft today.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Friday, March 28, 2014

Reading

• Realized I need to get a move on finishing reading Malink if I want to have my review written by the end of next month. By the end of the day, I was down to one chapter, plus the appendices, bibliography, and index.

Writing

• Wrote the next version of the DMNES editors handbook, and created the wiki on git for the repository of templates, etc..

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Reading

Writing

• having nearly finished the code-switching paper, I had an idea for another one. So I spent the afternoon working on data from Northants, 1301.

Revising

• Mom's proofreading comments on code-switching, and then doing all the futzing I need to do to submit. Arg, I hate trying to get reasonably accurate wordcounts. And why can't I submit a PDF? Why do you make me convert my PDF figures to JPG and then upload them separately? Why do you say "10 or 12 point font" in one place but "12 point" in another? Why do you want section headers to be unnumbered so that xrefs within the paper don't work? Why must you ask for endnotes? Why, why, why?

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Had a late lunch with Joel and then ran errands.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Reading

Writing

• Compiled bibliography for ob chapter, made a few tweaks to the chapter itself and sent it back to Catarina. I believe my work on the chapter is basically done.
• Wrote up April 1 LoI issuing guide.
• Wrote a first draft of the DMNES editor's guide.

Revising

Refereeing

• Wrote a referee report for an FWO project proposal.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Finally rented a car for Crown.
• Did not forget to buy diapers while on lunch.
• Wanted to start a DMNES editor's guide, but had to spend some time messing with git first.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Reading

• Proofread Thora's 2nd draft of her article.

Writing

• Uniformization, prettification, and proofreading of ob chapter, and just managed to finish it up in time to send it back to Catarina before leaving. Bibliography tomorrow.
• Some very small changes to code-switch, and then sent it to Rachel and Genny.

Revising

Refereeing

• Invited a bunch of referees for new JoLLI sub.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• More post travel email catch-up including a bunch of Eurostar surveys.

Monday, March 24, 2014

Trip home from Oxford/London today.

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

• Received, and accepted another JoLLI sub.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Caught up on a lot of the post event email (but not all), on the train.

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Spent most of the day on the train to London.

Reading

Writing

• Got some input on the stats, and finished up the code-switching paper to a point where I could mail it to people who were interested in reading a basically completed draft.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Reading

Writing

• Worked on incorporating my notes into codeswitch. I have a conclusion! And an abstract! There are two todos left: One I simply need to revisit a secondary source to see if it says anything relevant. The other, I really really really need someone who knows statistics.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Sorted out stuff for trip tomorrow.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Reading

• I have a new student assistant, and she shined forth with brilliance when she suggested that she could take all my paperwork over to the library and apply for my library card on my behalf. I said "yes please!" and sent her with all that AND a stack of books to check out, which I now get to read/skim:
  • Schendl, "Syntactic constraints on code-switching in medieval texts", in Placing Middle English in Context (2001).
  • Pahta, "Code-switching in medieval medical writing", in Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English (2004).
  • Phata & Nurmi, "Code-Switching in the Helsinki Corpus: A Thousand Years of Multilingual Practices", (2006).
  • Various in Schendl & Wright, Code-Switching in Early English (2011).

Writing

• Lots of notes taken for code-switching. Maybe tomorrow I can write all of them up.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Worked on figuring out how to convert bibtex -> TEI -> HTML in a nice way. The answer? Have someone else do it.
• Tried to adapt a javascript timeline thingy to work for the DMNES. I really really really should be paying someone else to do this.

Monday, March 17, 2014

Reading

Writing

• Mom sent me comments on AiML-2, just a few proofreading remarks, that I got through in the morning.
• Managed to do a few more updates on code-switch.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• Final eXist-db training session.

Miscellaneous

Friday, March 14, 2014

Reading

• Followed up on some pointers someone sent me in response to my question on med-grad. This was particularly interesting.
• H. Schendl, 2002, "Mixed-Language Texts as Data and Evidence in {E}nglish Historical Linguistics".

Writing

• Finally responded to Benedikt about our ESMLS paper.
• Got lots of new notes and quotes for code-switch, and started incorporating them. I wish I knew more about statistics.
• Suddenly had a nagging suspicion that I'd never spell-checked AiML-1. Since I've pretty much given up hope that Joel will proofread it for me before it's due next week (he's had it for A MONTH), this is no insignificant thing. And I was right: aspell caught four stupid typos.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Worked on the design doc Arnfriður sent me concerning the DMNES website.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Reading

• H. Schendl, "Code-switching in Old English Charters"
• H. Schendl, "Text types and code-switching in medieval and Early Modern English", VIEWS 5, nos. 1/2 (1996): 50-62).

Writing

• Code-switching: Nearly done!

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• DMNES coding; I added a bunch of new pages as placeholders for functionality we'd like to add, and also worked on writing a proper transform for the definitions.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Reading

I decided today was going to be "clean PDFs off the desktop" day.

• Dag Westerståhl, "On the Aristotelian Square of Opposition", (from his website).
• Manley Thompson, "On Aristotle's Square of Opposition", Philosophical Review 62, no. 2 (1953): 251-265.
• Nathaniel Mackey, "Other: From Noun to Verb", Representations 39 (1992): 51-70.
• Ryuko Kubota, "Discursive Construction of the Images of US Classrooms", TESOL Quarterly 35, no. 1 (2001): 9-38 (only skimmed, as it turned out to be not relevant.)
• Adam Jaworski & Justine Coupland, "Othering in Gossip: 'You Go out You Have a Laugh and You Can Pull Yeah Okay but Like...'", Language in Society 34, no. 5 (2005): 667-694. (ditto parenthetical above).
• George Engelbretson, "The Square of Opposition", NDJFL 17, no. 4 (1976): 531-541.
• More Malink while at lunch.

Writing

• Worked on code-switching paper. When I printed off my pages of random blather and collected notes, I was quite pleased to find it was already 7 pages! I had a surprisingly productive day working on it; I wrote out about 1.5 pages of notes long-hand (a rare occurrence), and then spent a lot of time rearranging already written paragraphs into a sensible order. I felt like I was constantly cutting material, but the paper continually got longer, which is always a satisfying experience.

Revising

Refereeing

• Received a referee report, so spent some time doing JoLLI stuff in the afternoon.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Gwen's home from daycare today so we can treat a minor eye infection, but the dr. said she can go back tomorrow, thank goodness.

Reading

• Proofread an article for a friend.

Writing

• Re-wrote my CV to be suitable for the BA application.
• Finished small tweaks and proofreading for the BA application, and sent it off! We should hear if we've made the first cut by the 20th.
• Wrote a DMNES blog post.

Revising

• MLitM has been returned from the most recent journal I submitted it too; I still haven't found the right venue for it, judging by the referee report.

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Since I was at home and couldn't really do complicated work, I decided to write up a list of things I want/need to do for the DMNES, and started working on it.
• E.g., created a github repo.
• And worked to get the bibliographic citation webpage to work.
• Exported names.sql and started trying to get the data into something that will extract and dump into XML files easily.

Monday, March 10, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

• Hurrah! My Sit verum has been accepted to Vivarium, pending minor revisions.

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• eXist-db day 5

Miscellaneous

Friday, March 7, 2014

Reading

• Karl Young, "An Interludium for a Gild of Corpus Christi", Modern Language Notes, 48, no. 2 (Feb. 1933): 84-86.
• Hardin Craig, "Review of Early English Stages, 1300-1600", Speculum 34, no. 4 (1959): 702-705.
• Mervyn James, "Ritual, Drama and Social Body in the Late Medieval English Town", Past & Present 98 (1983): 3-29.
• Barbara J. Harris, "A New Look at the Reformation: Aristocratic Women and Nunneries, 1450-1540", Journal of British Studies 32 no. 2 (1993): 89-113. [This one was utterly irrelevant for my current work, but fascinating!]
• Mary Catherine Davidson, "Code-switching and Authority in Late Medieval England", Neophilologus 87 (2003): 473-486.
• Nicola McLelland, "A Historical Study of Codeswitching in Writing: German and Latin in Schotellius' Ausfürliche Arbeit von der Teutschen HaubtSprache (1663)", International Journal of Bilingualism 8, no. 4 (2004): 499-523.
• Maud Sellers, "The City of York in the Sixteenth Century", The English Historical Review, 9, no. 34 (1894): 275-304.

Writing

• A little bit of code-switching writing, while reading the above.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Reading

Writing

• Code-switching paper: crunching data, making graphs.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Reading

Writing

• Wrote up a proof-reading proposal.
• Nearly completed our BA funding proposal.
• Worked on the code-switch paper again.

Revising

Refereeing

• Reviewed another paper for Res Philosophica.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Right before bed last night I finally got my XQuery code to return me results -- all the wrong ones, but results nonetheless. So I spent much of this morning fixing it, and actually managed to do so right before lunch.
• And then after a productive time doing some writing and reviewing and cleaning out email from my inbox, I got back to this. AND IT NOW WORKS! I can actually see now why some people enjoy coding. When it doesn't work, it's mystifying, and when it does it's *fistpump*. Now to get the bibliographic citations to work.

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Reading

Writing

• Worked some on code-switch before training started.
• Worked on a grant proposal while in training. Oh yeah, baby.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• eXist-db training all day.

Miscellaneous

Monday, March 3, 2014

Reading

• Read a new draft constitution.
• Read a grant application I've been asked to review. Haven't started writing the report yet, as I have Thoughts and want to think on them for awhile longer.
• Finished LoAR proofreading.

Writing

• Work on the word-list for the code-switching paper. Nearly lost track of the time -- check the clock about 5 min. before I had to leave to get Gwen, thinking it was, oh, probably around 14:00.

Revising

• Proofread the second proofs for the Lumbini piece.

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• The usual post-event/end of month email catch-up.
• Worked some more on DMNES/eXist-homework stuff. I feel like we were not given sufficient detail and examples in the previous class.

Friday, February 28, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• eXist-db training day 3: all day.

Miscellaneous