Berg, Kristian & Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (submitted). Implicit textual norms in A-level essays. Submitted for: Führer, Caroline/Fürstenberg, Maurice (eds.): Normativity and Relativity in German Language Teaching and Didactics. Perspectives on Language and Literature Didactics. SLLD-B – Linguistic and Literary Learning and German Language 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). Commas at the beginning and in the middle of a sentence. Theory and empirical evidence in written language linguistics. In: Krome, Sabine/Habermann, Mechthild/Lobin, Henning/Wöllstein, Angelika (eds.): Orthography in Science and Society. Writing System – Norm – Writing Practice. Berlin et al.: de Gruyter, pp. 1–24.

Romstadt, Jonas, Strombach, Theresa & Berg, Kristian (2024). GraphVar – A corpus for graphemic variation (and more). In: Krome, Sabine/Habermann, Mechthild/Lobin, Henning/Wöllstein, Angelika (eds.): Orthography in Science and Society. Writing System – Norm – Writing Practice. 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 de-lexicalisation: -nis in Modern High German. Contributions to the History of the German Language and Literature 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). School-leaving examinations – The comma in A-level essays from 1948 to the present day. In: Bredel, Ursula & Feilke, Helmuth (eds.), Language in Schools – A Language in the Making. 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). Written diphthongs and graphemic 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: the democratisation of orthography. In: Androutsopoulos, Jannis & Busch, Florian (eds.). Register of Digital Writing. Variation, Practices, Reflection. Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 53–66.

Berg, Kristian, Bredel, Ursula, Fuhrhop, Nanna & Schreiber, Niklas (2020). What determines the pre-comma? Linguistische Berichte, pp. 85–116.

Berg, Kristian (2019). The Graphemics of Morphemes in German and English. (“Convergence and Divergence – Comparative Linguistic Studies on German”, Vol. 10, eds. Eva Breindl & Lutz Gunkel), Berlin: de Gruyter (= Habilitation thesis, University of 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 available on GitHub)

Berg, Kristian / Evertz, Martin. 2018. Graphemics. In: Dipper, S. / Klabunde, R. / Mihatsch, W. (eds.): Linguistics. An Introduction to Linguistics (not only) for Germanists, Romanists and Anglists. 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. ( LSA press release)

Aronoff, Mark / Berg, Kristian / Heyer, Vera. 2016. Some implications of English spelling for morphological processing. In: The Mental Lexicon 11, pp. 164–185.

Berg, Kristian / Primus, Beatrice / Wagner, Lutz. 2016. Letter feature, letter, grapheme. In: Primus, Beatrice & Domahs, Ulrike (eds.): Handbook of Sound – Sign – Letter. Berlin: de Gruyter.

Berg, Kristian. 2016. Graphemic variation. In: Mesch, Birgit / Noack, Christina (eds.): Teaching Spelling: 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: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 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 (=PhD thesis, University of Oldenburg, 2012)

Langhanke, Robert / Berg, Kristian / Elmentaler, Michael / Peters, Jörg (eds.). 2012.Low German Syntax. (=Germanistische Linguistik 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 on Modern Low German Syntax Research: Findings and Future Directions. In: Germanistic Linguistics 220.

Berg, Kristian. 2012. Low German Morphosyntax – A State of the Art. In:*Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch* 135, pp. 81–100.

Berg, Kristian. 2012. Review of: Eisenberg, Peter: Das Fremdwort im German. In:Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 31 (2), pp. 293–297.

Berg, Kristian. 2012. Identifying graphematic units: Vowel and consonant letters. In:*Written Language and Literacy* 15(1), pp. 26–45.

Berg, Kristian. 2011. “The passive in Low German: Who is being helped?” In:Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 78, pp. 1–24.

Berg, Kristian / Fuhrhop, Nanna. 2011. “Complex syllable-nucleus spellings in English compared 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 modern North Low German. Positioning between English and High German. In: Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch 131, pp. 145–158.

2025

‘Morphological productivity – individual and community-level factors’, 8 January 2025, German Studies Colloquium, Bielefeld University, (invited talk)

2024

“Historical and psycholinguistic perspectives on morphological productivity: A sketch of an integrative approach” (with Harald Baayen), 21 May 2024, Unravelling Linguistic Productivity: Insights into usage, processing and variability, Ghent University.
“A longitudinal, corpus-based study of the effects of statistical learning on spelling development” (with Joshua Wieler, Ronja Laarmann-Quante and Eva Belke), 4 September 2024, DGKL, University of Osnabrück
“Morphographemics: How morphological boundaries affect spelling variation” (with Stefan Hartmann), 4 September 2024, DGKL, University of Osnabrück

2023

“Theory and Empiricism in Orthography Research”, 14 March 2023, Annual Conference of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, Mannheim (invited talk)

2022

“Ontogenetic development of morphological spellings in German: A pilot study” (with Stefan Hartmann), 12 September 2022, HHU Düsseldorf.

“Morphology and spelling variation. A case study using spontaneous handwritten data” (with Stefan Hartmann and Daniel Claeser), 4 September 2022, IMM 2022, Budapest

“Superfluous commas” (with Jonas Romstadt), 11 March 2022, 3rd Punctuation Workshop organised by the Grammar Didactics Working Group, Hildesheim/Munich (online).

“Complex words in handwriting: A case study on spelling errors in school-leaving exams” (with Stefan Hartmann and Daniel Claeser), 9 February 2022, MPP 2022, HHU Düsseldorf.

2021

“School-leaving Certificate – The comma in A-level essays from 1948 to the present day” (with Jonas Romstadt), 23 April 2021, 2nd Punctuation Workshop organised by the Grammar Didactics Working Group, TU Braunschweig (online).

2020

“Uniformity and uniqueness in historical graphematics” (with Stefan Hartmann), 23 November 2020, Colloquium of Research Group 2373, HHU Düsseldorf

“Spelling and morphology”, 26 March 2020, Colloquium of Research Group 2373, HHU Düsseldorf (invited talk).

“Self-organisation and utilisation in spelling”, 4 March 2020, DGfS 2020, University of Hamburg

2019

“Graphemic variation”, 22 October 2019, Departmental Colloquium, University of Bonn

“Spelling Changes: Variation and Consistency”, 10 April 2019, Charles University, Prague (invited talk)

2018

‘Punctuation: Use and Norm’, 7 December 2018, NWLK 2018, University of Oldenburg.

“With this construction in mind (,), we discuss a syntactic description”, 7 December 2018, NWLK 2018, University of Oldenburg (with Niklas Schreiber).

“Variation in the punctuation of competent writers”, 4 December 2018, Departmental Colloquium, Institute for German Studies, University of Hildesheim (invited talk).

“Reduction of variation in Early Modern English: A case of self-organisation”, 28 August 2018, International Conference on English Historical Linguistics 20, University of Edinburgh (with Mark Aronoff).

“Morphological spellings: structural and historical perspectives”, 9 July 2018, Symposium “The morphology of written English”, HWK Delmenhorst (with Mark Aronoff).

“Lady Mondegreen and Kurt the Angel. What mishearings tell us about language processing”. 17 January 2018, habilitation lecture, University of Oldenburg.

2017

“Low German syntax, North German syntax”, 15 November 2017, Linguistic Colloquium at LMU Munich (invited talk)

“Spelling suffixes (and beyond)”, 23 October 2017, English Studies Colloquium, Technical University of Braunschweig (invited lecture)

“Spelling as a self-organising system”, 13 July 2017, 24th Annual Conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Halifax, Canada.

(with Nanna Fuhrhop) “The Pre-comma on the Web”, 1 June 2017, Symposium “Registers of Digital Writing”, University of Hamburg.

2016

“Spelling Changes: Variation and Consistency”, 22 June 2016, colloquium at Harald Baayen’s chair, University of Tübingen

“Homophones and Heterographs”, 25 February 2016, DGfS 2016, University of Konstanz

“Writing and Grammar”, 12 January 2016, University of Osnabrück

2015

“Spelling suffixes”, 18 December 2015, Morphologydays, KU Leuven

2014

"Spelling and morphology", 8 October 2014, Brown Bag Talk, Stony Brook University

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

2013

(with Nanna Fuhrhop) "Graphemic language profiles – a guide", 14 December, 6th NWLK, Jacobs University Bremen

(with Nanna Fuhrhop) “Orthographic Profiles – Proposals for the Expansion and Operationalisation of Primus’ Questionnaire, Illustrated Using French”, 11 October, Contributions to Current Writing System Research (BEAS conference), University of Cologne.

2012

“Principles of Spelling in German and English”, 7 December, 5th NWLK, University of Oldenburg

“Low German–High German contact phenomena”, 5 May 2012, Colloquium “Low German Syntax”, University of Kiel

2011

“Low German Morphosyntax: A State of the Art”, 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 July 2011, 4th International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Osnabrück

"Stability and convergence in case marking: Low German and/vs. High German", 4 November 2011, workshop "Stability and divergence in language contact", University of Hamburg

2010

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

(with Nanna Fuhrhop) “German and English written and spoken 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 December 2010, 3rd NWLK, University of Oldenburg

2009

“The Low German passive – Who or whom has been helped?”, 8 September 2009, IGDD 2009, University of Zurich

“Low German Syntax”, 6 November 2009, PhD students’ colloquium, University of Oldenburg

“The Low German passive”, 11 November 2009, Wednesday Colloquium, University of Marburg

2008

"The Low German case system: An OT approach", 23 January 2008, Linguistics Working Group, University of Cologne

Variation in the use of competent writers

How morphology materialises (with Stefan Hartmann, HHU Düsseldorf)