Berg, Kristian & Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (submitted). Implicit text norms of A-level papers. Submitted for: Führer, Caroline/Fürstenberg, Maurice (eds.): Normativity and relativity in German didactics and teaching. Language and literature didactic perspectives. SLLD-B - Linguistic-literary learning and German didactics.

Berg, Kristian, Hartmann, Stefan & Claeser, Daniel (2024). Are some morphological units more prone to spelling variation than others? A case study using spontaneous handwritten data. Morphology. 34, 173-188.

Berg, Kristian (2024). Prefield commas and midfield commas. Theory and empiricism in written linguistics. In: Krome, Sabine/Habermann, Mechthild/Lobin, Henning/Wöllstein, Angelika (eds.): Orthography in science and society. Writing system - standard - writing usage. Berlin et al.: de Gruyter, pp. 1-24.

Romstadt, Jonas, Strombach, Theresa & Berg, Kristian (2024). GraphVar - A corpus for graphematic variation (and more). In: Krome, Sabine/Habermann, Mechthild/Lobin, Henning/Wöllstein, Angelika (eds.): Orthography in science and society. Writing system - standard - writing usage. Berlin et al.: de Gruyter, pp. 425-435.

Romstadt, Jonas & Berg, Kristian (2024). Superfluous commas. In Langlotz, Miriam, Fürstenberg, Maurice & Romstadt, Jonas (eds.). Theoretical and empirical perspectives on punctuation. Errors, correction, reflection. Bielefeld: wbv, pp. 73-104.

Berg, Kristian (2023). Word - sentence - language. An introduction to linguistics. Tübingen: Narr.

Tomaschek, Fabian & Berg, Kristian (2023). Phonetic characteristics of German unstressed vowels: The case of opa vs Oper. JASA Express Lett. 1 September 2023; 3 (9): 095201. doi.org/10.1121/10.0020813

Berg, Kristian (2022). Productivity, lexicalisation and deconstruction: -nis in Modern High German. Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 144/4, pp.545-572.

Treiman, Rebecca, Jewell, Rebecca, Berg, Kristian & Aronoff, Mark (2021). Word class and spelling in English. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47(6), 1027-1035.

Berg, Kristian & Aronoff, Mark (2021). Is the English writing system phonographic or lexical/morphological? A new look at the spelling of stems. Morphology 31, pp. 315-328.

Berg, Kristian (2021). Major lexical categories and graphemic weight. In: Moradi, Sedigheh, Haag, Marcia, Rees-Miller, Janie Rees-Miller & Petrovic, Andrija (eds.). All Things Morphology. Its independence and its interfaces. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 117-126.

Berg, Kristian & Romstadt, Jonas (2021). Reifeprüfung - The comma in Abitur essays from 1948 to today. In: Bredel, Ursula & Feilke, Helmuth (eds.), Die Sprache in den Schulen - Eine Sprache im Werden. Third report on the state of the German language. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, pp. 205-236.

Berg, Kristian (2021). Productivity in historical word formation. In: Schwarz, Christian & Ganslmayer, Christine (eds.), Historical Word Formation. Theory - Methods - Perspectives.

Fuhrhop, Nanna & Berg, Kristian (2021). Spelling diphthongs and graphematic syllable nuclei. In: Evertz-Rittich, Martin & Kirchhoff, Frank (eds.). Written and spoken language as modalities of a language system. Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 5-36.

Berg, Kristian, Romstadt, Jonas & Neitzert, Cedrek (2021). GraphVar - Corpus construction and annotation. Version 1.0. graphvar.uni-bonn.de/static/documents/GraphVar_Korpusaufbau_und_Annotation_v1.pdf

Berg, Kristian (2020). Changes in the productivity of German word-formation patterns. Some methodological remarks. Linguistics.

Berg, Kristian (2020). Variation in digital writing: Democratisation of orthography. In: Androutsopoulos, Jannis & Busch, Florian (eds.). Registers of digital writing. Variation, practices, reflection. Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 53-66.

Berg, Kristian, Bredel, Ursula, Fuhrhop, Nanna & Schreiber, Niklas (2020). What determines the antecedent comma? Linguistic reports, pp. 85-116.

Berg, Kristian (2019). The graphematics of morphemes in German and English. ("Konvergenz und Divergenz - Sprachvergleichende Studien zum Deutschen" vol. 10, ed. Eva Breindl & Lutz Gunkel), Berlin: de Gruyter (=Habilitationsschrift Universität Oldenburg, 2018).

Berg, Kristian & Aronoff, Mark. 2018. Further evidence for self-organisation in English spelling. Language 94(1), pp. e48-e53.

Berg, Kristian. 2018 Productivity, vocabulary size, and new words. A reply to Säily (2016). In: Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. (Python scripts for this on Github)

Berg, Kristian / Evertz, Martin. 2018. graphematics. In: Dipper, S. / Klabunde, R. / Mihatsch W. (eds.): Linguistik. An introduction to linguistics (not only) for German, Romance and English linguists. Springer.

Berg, Kristian. 2017. visible inflectional morphology in English and German. In: Fuhrhop, Nanna / Szczepaniak, Renata / Schmidt, Karsten (eds.): Visible and audible morphology. Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 9-40.

Berg, Kristian & Aronoff, Mark. 2017. self-organisation in the spelling of English suffixes: the emergence of culture out of anarchy. Language 93, 37-64(Press release of the LSA)

Aronoff, Mark / Berg, Kristian / Heyer, Vera. 2016. Some implications of English spelling for morphological processing. In: The Mental Lexicon 11.164-185.

Berg, Kristian / Primus, Beatrice / Wagner, Lutz. 2016. letter feature, letter, grapheme. In: Primus, Beatrice & Domahs, Ulrike (eds.): Handbuch Laut - Gebärde - Buchstabe. Berlin: de Gruyter.

Berg, Kristian. 2016. graphematic variation. In: Mesch, Birgit / Noack, Christina (eds.): Orthography lessons between norm and system. Schneider.

Berg, Kristian. 2016. Double consonants in English: Graphemic, morphological, prosodic and etymological determinants. In: Reading and Writing 29.3, pp. 453-474.

Berg, Kristian. 2016. Graphemic Analysis and the Spoken Language Bias. In: Frontiers in Psychology 7.388; doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00388

Berg, Kristian. 2016. review of: Scott, Alan: The Genitive Case in Dutch and German. In: Journal of Dialectology and Linguistics 82.1, pp. 118-121.

Berg, Kristian / Buchmann, Franziska / Fuhrhop, Nanna (eds.). 2014. the architecture of writing systems. Written Language and Literacy 14.2, Special Issue.

Berg, Kristian / Buchmann, Franziska / Dyebic, Katharina / Fuhrhop, Nanna. 2014. Morphological spellings in English. Written Language and Literacy 14.2, pp. 282-307.

Berg, Kristian. 2014. stability and convergence in case marking. In: Braunmüller, Kurt / Höder, Steffen / Kühl, Karoline (eds.), Stability and Divergence in Language Contact(=Studies in Language Variation 16). Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 63-76.

Berg, Kristian. 2013. graphemic alternations in English as a reflex of morphological structure. In: Morphology 23.4, pp. 387-408.

Berg, Kristian. 2013. morphosyntax of nominal units in Low German. Heidelberg: Winter (=Dissertation University of Oldenburg 2012)

Langhanke, Robert / Berg, Kristian / Elmentaler, Michael / Peters, Jörg (eds.). 2012Low German syntax. (=Germanic Linguistics 220). Hildesheim/Zurich/New York: Olms.

Berg, Kristian. 2012. traces of Low German syntax in local High German. In:Germanistische Linguistik 220.

Berg, Kristian / Höder, Steffen / Langhanke, Robert. 2012. perspectives of modern Low German syntax research. Results and desiderata. In: Germanistische Linguistik 220.

Berg, Kristian. 2012. Low German morphosyntax - an inventory. In: Low German Yearbook 135, pp. 81-100.

Berg, Kristian. 2012. review of: Eisenberg, Peter: The foreign word in German. In:Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 31 (2), pp. 293-297.

Berg, Kristian. 2012. identifying graphematic units: Vowel and consonant letters. In:Written Language and Literacy15(1), pp. 26-45.

Berg, Kristian. 2011. "The passive voice in Low German: Who is helped?" In:Journal of Dialectology and Linguistics 78, pp. 1-24.

Berg, Kristian / Fuhrhop, Nanna. 2011. "Complex syllable nucleation in English in comparison with German". In: Linguistische Berichte 228, pp. 443-466.

Fuhrhop, Nanna/ Buchmann, Franziska/ Berg, Kristian. 2011. "The length hierarchy and the graphematic syllable. Evidence from German and English". In: Written Language & Literacy 14 (2), pp. 275-292.

Berg, Kristian. 2010. review of: Bredel, Ursula. Punctuation. In: Written Language and Literacy 13, pp. 290-293.

Berg, Kristian. 2008. Grammatical functions in contemporary Northern Low German. Positioning between English and High German. In: Low German Yearbook 131, pp. 145-158.

2025

"Morphological productivity - individual and community-level factors", 08.01.2025, Germanistisches Kollquium Uni Bielefeld, (invited lecture)

2024

"Historical and psycholinguistic perspectives on morphological productivity: A sketch of an integrative approach" (with Harald Baayen), 21.05.2024, Unravelling Linguistic Productivity: Insights into usage, processing and variability, Uni Ghent.
"A longitudinal, corpus-based study of effects of statistical learning on spelling development" (with Joshua Wieler, Ronja Laarmann-Quante and Eva Belke), 04.09.2024, DGKL, Uni Osnabrück
"Morphographemics: How morphological boundaries affect spelling variation" (with Stefan Hartmann), 04.09.2024, DGKL, Uni Osnabrück

2023

"Theorie und Empirie in der Orthographieforschung", 14 March 2023, Annual Conference of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, Mannheim (invited lecture)

2022

"Ontogenetic development of morphological spellings in German: A pilot study" (with Stefan Hartmann), 12/09/2022, HHU Düsseldorf.

"Morphology and spelling variation. A case study using spontaneous handwritten data" (with Stefan Hartmann and Daniel Claeser), 04.09.2022, IMM 2022, Budapest

"Überflüssige Kommas" (with Jonas Romstadt), 11.03.2022, 3rd punctuation workshop in the context of the AG Grammatikdidaktik, Hildesheim/Munich (digital).

"Complex words in handwriting: A case study on spelling errors in school-exit exams" (with Stefan Hartmann and Daniel Claeser), 09.02.2022, MPP 2022, HHU Düsseldorf.

2021

"Reifezeugnis - Das Komma in Abituraufsätzen von 1948 bis heute" (with Jonas Romstadt), 23.04.2021, 2nd punctuation workshop as part of the AG Grammatikdidaktik, TU Braunschweig (digital).

2020

"Uniformity and uniqueness in historical graphematics" (with Stefan Hartmann), 23.11.2020, colloquium of the research group 2373, HHU Düsseldorf

"Spelling and morphology", 26.03.2020, colloquium of the research group 2373, HHU Düsseldorf (invited lecture).

"Self-organisation and utilization in spelling", 04.03.2020, DGfS 2020, University of Hamburg

2019

"Graphematische Variation", 22 October 2019, Institute Colloquium, University of Bonn

"Spelling Changes: Variation and Consistency", 10.04.2019, Charles University, Prague (invited lecture)

2018

"Interpunktion: Gebrauch und Norm", 07.12.2018, NWLK 2018, University of Oldenburg.

This construction in mind (,) we discuss a syntactic description", 07.12.2018, NWLK 2018, University of Oldenburg (with Niklas Schreiber).

"Variation in der Interpunktion kompetenter Schreiber", 04.12.2018, Institutskolloquium, Institute for German Studies, University of Hildesheim (invited lecture).

"Reduction of variation in Early Modern English: A case of self-organisation", 28.08.2018, International Conference on English Historical Linguistics 20, University of Edinburgh (with Mark Aronoff).

"Morphological spellings: structural and historical perspectives", 09.07.2018, Symposium "The morphology of written English", HWK Delmenhorst (with Mark Aronoff).

"Lady Mondegreen and Kurt the Angel. What interrogators tell us about language processing". 17.01.2018, Habilitation lecture, University of Oldenburg.

2017

"Niederdeutsche Syntax, norddeutsche Syntax", 15 November 2017, Linguistisches Kolloquium of the LMU Munich (invited lecture)

"Spelling suffixes (and beyond)", 23.10.2017, Anglistisches Kolloquium, TU Braunschweig (invited lecture)

"Spelling as a self-organising system", 13.07.2017, 24th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Halifax, Canada.

(with Nanna Fuhrhop) "Das Vorfeldkomma im Netz", 01.06.2017, Symposium "Register des digitalen Schreibens, Universität Hamburg.

2016

"Spelling Changes: Variation and Consistency", 22/06/2016, colloquium at the chair of Harald Baayen, University of Tübingen

"Homophones and Heterographs", 25 February 2016, DGfS 2016, University of Konstanz

"Script and grammar", 12 January 2016, University of Osnabrück

2015

"Spelling suffixes", 18.12.2015, Morphologydays, KU Leuven

2014

"Spelling and morphology", 08.10.2014, Brown Bag Talk, Stony Brook University

"Visible morphology in English", 6 March 2014, DGfS 2014, Philipps University Marburg

2013

(with Nanna Fuhrhop) "Graphematische Sprachprofile - ein Leitfaden", 14 December, 6th NWLK, Jacobs University Bremen

(with Nanna Fuhrhop) "Profiles orthographiques - Vorschläge zur Erweiterung und Operationalisierung des Primus'schen Questionnaire, dargestellt am Französischen". 11 October, Beiträge zur aktuellen Schriftsystemforschung (BEAS conference), University of Cologne.

2012

"Principles of word spelling in German and English", 7 Dec., 5th NWLK, University of Oldenburg

"Niederdeutsch-hochdeutsche Kontaktphänomene", 5 May 2012, colloquium "Niederdeutsche Syntax", University of Kiel

2011

"Low German morphosyntax: Eine Bestandsaufnahme", 15 June 2011, annual conference of the VndS, University of Oldenburg

"Graphematics as evidence for morphology: The letter <y> as a marker for the quality of morphological processes", 21.07.2011, 4th International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, Uni Osnabrück

"Stability and convergence in case marking: Low and/vs. High German", 04.11.2011, Workshop "Stability and divergence in language contact", Uni Hamburg

2010

"On the influence of writing on Low German grammar writing", 24 February 2010, DGfS 2010, HU Berlin

(with Nanna Fuhrhop) "German and English writing and speaking diphthongs", 25 February 2010, DGfS 2010, HU Berlin

(with Nanna Fuhrhop) "Vowel graphemes: In search of a definition and a (better) name". 30 September 2010, WLL 2010, Sorbonne

"Low German today - in search of syntactic substance". 4 Dec. 2010, 3rd NWLK, University of Oldenburg

2009

"The Low German passive voice - Who or whom has been helped?", 8 September 2009, IGDD 2009, University of Zurich

"Low German syntax", 06 November 2009, doctoral colloquium, University of Oldenburg

"Das niederdeutsche Passiv", 11 November 2009, Wednesday colloquium, University of Marburg

2008

"Das niederdeutsche Kasussystem: Ein OT-Ansatz", 23 January 2008, Linguistischer Arbeitskreis, University of Cologne

Variation in the use of competent writers

How morphology materialises (with Stefan Hartmann, HHU Düsseldorf)