Kristian Berg

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kristian Berg plays a role.

Title

The architecture of writing systems

Edited by Kristian Berg, Franziska Buchmann and Nanna Fuhrhop

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 17:2 (2014) viii, 142 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Language teaching | Writing and literacy
Berg, Kristian 2021 Chapter 7. Major lexical categories and graphemic weightAll Things Morphology: Its independence and its interfaces, Moradi, Sedigheh, Marcia Haag, Janie Rees-Miller and Andrija Petrovic (eds.), pp. 117–126 | Chapter
English spelling has a very interesting regularity: there exists a minimum word length for lexical words. Words of this class have to be at least three letters long, even if they consist of only two phonemes and could be spelled with two letters (e.g., ebb/*eb, egg/*eg). This regularity does not… read more
Aronoff, Mark, Kristian Berg and Vera Heyer 2016 Some implications of English spelling for morphological processingLinguistic Perspectives on Morphological Processing, Clahsen, Harald, Vera Heyer and Jana Reifegerste (eds.), pp. 164–185 | Article
In alphabetic writing systems, the most consistent correspondences hold between written and spoken segments. Although English spelling uses the Roman alphabet and is thus largely phonographic, it also encodes non-phonological distinctions such as those among homophonic words (e.g., pair, pare,… read more
Berg, Kristian 2014 Stability and convergence in case marking: Low and High GermanStability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms, Braunmüller, Kurt, Steffen Höder and Karoline Kühl (eds.), pp. 63–76 | Article
In Modern Low German, there are signs for a newly emerging dative case under Standard German influence. The present paper analyzes this case of potential convergence, concentrating on definite articles of neuter gender. Methodologically, a new corpus of spontaneous speech is used, alongside… read more
Berg, Kristian, Franziska Buchmann and Nanna Fuhrhop 2014 Foreword: The architecture of writing systemsThe architecture of writing systems, Berg, Kristian, Franziska Buchmann and Nanna Fuhrhop (eds.), pp. vii–viii | Article
Berg, Kristian, Franziska Buchmann, Katharina Dybiec and Nanna Fuhrhop 2014 Morphological spellings in EnglishThe architecture of writing systems, Berg, Kristian, Franziska Buchmann and Nanna Fuhrhop (eds.), pp. 282–307 | Article
Morphologically motivated spellings in English are usually thought to be restricted to cases like 〈electric – electrician – electricity〉, where the stem final letter 〈c〉 is kept constant in spelling although the corresponding phoneme varies in spoken language. However, there are many more – and… read more
It is a matter of debate how far the description of a writing system should be based on the units and categories of the respective spoken language. The present paper pursues the idea of relative autonomy: accordingly, writing systems should be based on as little phonological information as… read more
Fuhrhop, Nanna, Franziska Buchmann and Kristian Berg 2011 The length hierarchy and the graphematic syllable: Evidence from German and EnglishWritten Language & Literacy 14:2, pp. 275–292 | Article
Minuscules of the Roman alphabet can be subcategorized into graphemes with length (for example 〈b〉) and graphemes without length (for example 〈o〉). While plosives, which correspond to graphemes with length, occur at the syllable edge, vowels, corresponding to graphemes without length, constitute… read more
Berg, Kristian 2010 Review of Bredel (2008): Die Interpunktion des Deutschen. Ein kompositionelles System zur Online-Steuerung des LesensDevelopmental aspects of written language, Vernon Carter, Sofía A. and Mónica Alvarado (eds.), pp. 290–293 | Review