About Me


I am currently a first-year PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at Yale University. My research interests include historical linguistics and language contact, and I am especially interested in the interfaces among the various sub-branches of linguistics. I work in the Yale Pama-Nyungan Lab and am currently working on two research projects, one focusing on subgrouping and reconstruction within the Western Desert language and one on the simulation of data sets to explore remote relationships and random signal in lists.

 

Education


Yale University, New Haven, CT
PhD student, Department of Linguistics (2015- )

Wheaton College, Norton, MA
BA, Summa Cum Laude, English and Russian Studies (May 2015)

 

Publications


Berger, Rosetta M. 2015. Closed-syllable constraints and vowel harmony in Proto-Russian loanwords (Davis Center Undergraduate Research Series 1). Cambridge, MA: Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.

Berger, Rosetta M. and Michael D.C. Drout. 2015. A reconsideration of the relationship between Víga-Glúms saga and Reykdœla saga: New evidence from lexomics analysis. Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 11. 1-32.

 

Conference Presentations and Workshops


Using dialectal evidence to determine date and provenance of literary compositions: A case study of Beowulf
SYNC Conference 2015
New York University, New York, NY, December 2015

Subversion — Syntactic: A Linguistic Analysis of Emily Dickinson’s Poetry in Translation
20th Annual Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 2015

Closed-Syllable Constraints and Vowel Harmony in Proto-Russian Loanwords
19th Annual Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 2014

Graduate Workshop: Using Lexomics Tools
(with Michael Drout, Mark LeBlanc, Namiko Hitotsubashi, Richard Neal, and Leah Smith)
International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
University College Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin, IR, July 2013

Beowulf, Old Norse, and Tolkien: In the Trenches with Lexomics
(with Namiko Hitotsubashi, Richard Neal, and Leah Smith)
Boston-Area Days of Digital Humanities 2013
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, March 2013

 

Curriculum Vitae


Rosetta M. Berger CV Spring 2016 (pdf)