Things I did in Trieste:

1. Attend Mayan languages (mostly Tzotzil) course by John Haviland
2. Prepare and present a 2 hour presentation of my research
3. Review and annotate all SAND1 data
4. Enhance variable distance measure
5. Implement Fractional Distance for feature variables (one of the reasons to visit Trieste)
6. Implement additional syntactic measure à la variable distance measure (‘marked’ variables)
7. Implement distance measure using composite variables
8. Generate a composite variables MS Excel-compatible file to interactively explore all variable relations
9. Integrate better MDS plot visualisations with clustering-based colouring
10. Attended Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS9) conference
11. Tried to attend a workshop on Linguistics and Cognitive Psychology
12. Now preparing for the Digital Humanities presentation

• Talk and discuss my work during more informal sessions with Gabriele Rigon, Chiara Gianollo, Pino Longobardi, Christina Guardiano, Andrea Sgarro
• Visit the Universitites of Modena and Reggio Emilia
• Showed MDS plots of Longobardi’s data

• Visit Bologna en Venice
• Played in the university tennis tournament
• Tried to learn some Italian