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Department of Linguistics

Emeritus Professor Pam Peters

Selected Publications

A. Books I (authored and edited)

Peters, P, Collins, P and Smith A (eds) (2009) Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and Beyond. Amsterdam, John Benjamins

Peters, Pam (2007) Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage.  Cambridge University Press 905pp.

Peters, Pam (2005) A Word on Words. CAE Press 90pp.

Delbridge, A., Bernard, J., Blair, D., Butler, S., Peters, P. and Yallop, C., (2005) The Macquarie Dictionary. Fourth Edition. Sydney, Macquarie Library 2504 pp.

Peters, Pam (2005) The Cambridge Guide to English Usage. (South Asian Edition) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 608pp.

Peters, P.H., (2004) The Cambridge Guide to English Usage. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 608pp.

Peters, P.H., Collins P., and Smith A. (2002) eds New Frontiers of Corpus Research. Amsterdam, Rodopi 330pp.

Peters, P.H., (1998) general editor Pocket Macquarie Writers Guide. Chinese Edition. Beijing FLTPR Press 599pp.

Delbridge, A., Bernard, J., Blair, D., Butler, S., Peters, P. and Yallop, C., (1997) The Macquarie Dictionary. Third Edition. Sydney, Macquarie Library 2504 pp.

Peters, P.H., (1996) Cambridge Australian English Style Guide. Revised Paperback Edition. Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 848 pp.

Peters, P.H., (1995) The Cambridge Australian English Style Guide. Melbourne, Cambridge University Press 848 pp.

Delbridge, A., Bernard, J., Blair, D., Peters, P. and Butler, S., (1991) The Macquarie Dictionary. Second Edition. Sydney, Macquarie Library 2050 pp.

Peters, P.H., (1990) general editor Pocket Macquarie Writers Guide. Brisbane, Jacaranda 569 pp.

Peters, P.H., (1990) general editor Macquarie File Writers Guide. Brisbane, Jacaranda 228 pp.

Peters, P.H., (1989) general editor Macquarie Student Writers Guide. Brisbane, Jacaranda 495 pp.

Peters, P.H., Macgregor, R. and Blair, D. (1987) Input-Output: writing resources for English students. Sydney, CCH Australia 115 pp.

Peters, P.H. (1985) Strategies for Student Writers. Brisbane, John Wiley 141 pp.

B. Books II (edited conference papers)

Peters, P.H., (2002) ed. From Local to Global English: proceedings of Style Councils 2001-2. Sydney, Dictionary Research Centre. 158 pp.

Peters, P.H., (2000) ed. Style in context: language at large: proceedings of Style Councils 1996, 1997 and 1999. Sydney, Dictionary Research Centre. 298 pp.

Peters, P.H., (1995) ed. Australian English in a pluralist Australia, proceedings of Style Council 1995. Sydney, Dictionary Research Centre. 194 pp.

Peters, P.H., (1994) ed. The National Language: proceedings of Style Council 1994. Sydney, Dictionary Research Centre 174 pp.

Peters P.H., (1993) ed. Style on the Move: proceedings of Style Council 1992. Sydney, Dictionary Research Centre 183 pp.

Peters, P.H., (1992) ed. Australian Style into the Nineties: proceedings of Style Councils 1990 and 1991. Sydney, Dictionary Research Centre 281 pp.

Peters, P.H., (1990) ed. Frontiers of Style: proceedings of Style Council 1987 and 1988. Sydney, Dictionary Research Centre 177 pp.

Peters, P.H., (1986) ed. Style in Australia: proceedings of Style Council 1986. Sydney, Dictionary Research Centre 196 pp.

C. Journal Articles and Chapters in Edited Books

  1. Peters, Pam (forthcoming 2011) Standard British English.  In A Bergs and L Brinton (eds)  Historical Linguistics of English 2 vols. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter

  2. Peters, Pam and Burridge, Kate (forthcoming 2011) Areal features of English in Australia and New Zealand.  In R Hickey (ed) Areal Features of the Anglophone World  Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter

  3. Wong, Deanna, Cassidy Steve and Peters, Pam (forthcoming  early 2012: accepted November 2010) Updating the ICE annotation system: tagging, parsing and validation.  Corpora

  4. Peters, Pam (forthcoming 2011; accepted August 2010) Variation, prescriptive writing and the evolution of English usage.  In J Lo Bianco (ed.) Gift of the Gab. Canberra, Academy of the Humanities

  5. Peters, Pam (online 2009)  International English and its construction. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 31:3

  6. Peters, Pam  (2009 [published 2010]) International trends in English style and usage Clarity 62: 34-40

  7. Fernandez, Trinidad and Peters, Pam (online 2009)  Transdisciplinary approaches to ESP for graduate students in architecture.  In V Bhatia et al. eds Language for Professional Communication: Research, Practice and Training  Asia-Pacific LSP and Professional Communication Association

  8. Peters, Pam (2009) The architecture of a multipurpose Australian National Corpus. In  M Haugh, K Burridge, J Mulder, P Peters (eds)  Selected Proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus: Mustering languages.  Somerville MA,  Cascadilla

  9. Peters, Pam (forthcoming) Style and politeness: the case of the personal pronoun. In S Yamazaki and R. Sigley eds.  Approaching variation through corpora: studies in honor of Toshio Saito. Amsterdam, Rodopi

  10. Peters, P (2009) "Australian English as a regional epicentre", in L. Siebers and T. Hoffmann eds. World Englishes: Problems, Properties, Prospects. Amsterdam, John Benjamins

  11. Peters, P. (2009) "Irregular verbs: regularisation and ongoing variability", in Peters, Collins and Smith eds.

  12. Peters, P. (2009) "The mandative subjunctive in spoken English", in Peters, Collins and Smith eds.

  13. Fernandez T, Florez de la Colina, M-A and Peters, P (2009) Terminology and terminography for architecture and building construction. Terminology 15:2

  14. Peters, P. and Funk, Y. (2009) "NO in the lexicogrammar of English", in Peters, Collins and Smith eds.

  15. Peters, P. (2008) "Australian and New Zealand English", in H. Momma and M. Matto eds The History of the English Language. Wiley-Blackwell

  16. Peters, P. (2008) "Patterns of negation: the relationship between NO and NOT in regional varieties of English", in T Nevalainen, I Taavitsainen, P Pahta and M Korhonen eds. Amsterdam, John Benjamins

  17. Peters P, Jones A, Smith A, Winchester-Seeto T, Middledorp J and Petocz P. (2008) "TermFinder: creating online termbanks of technical terms for early university study" Journal of Applied Linguistics 6:2

  18. Wong, Deanna and Peters, Pam (2007) A study of backchannels in regional varieties of English, using corpus markup as the means of identification.  International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12:4

  19. Peters P.H., (2007) Similes and other evaluative idioms in Australian English, in P. Skandera ed. Idiom(s) and Culture(s) in English. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter

  20. Peters, Pam; Tent, Jan and Fernandez, Trinidad (2006) Critical lexicography. In C Marello, ed. Euralex  Proceedings 2006

  21. Peters P.H., (2006) English usage: prescription and description, in B. Aarts and A. McMahon eds Handbook of English Linguistics. Oxford, Blackwells Publishing

  22. Collins, P. and Peters, P.H., (2004) Australian English morphology and syntax, in B. Kortmann ed. Varieties of English 2 vols. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter

  23. Peters, P.H. and Smith, A., (2003) Text structure and segmentation in online documents, in S. Granger and S. Petch-Tyson, Extending the Scope of Corpus-Based Research Amsterdam, Rodopi pp. 71-88

  24. Peters, P.H., (2002) Textual morphology from Gutenberg to the e-book, in A Fischer, G. Tottie, H. Martin-Lehmann eds Text Types and Corpora: Studies in Honour of Udo Fries Tübingen, Gunter Narr Verlag pp.77-90

  25. Peters, P.H. and Taylor, B., (2002) Low levels of style, in D. Alan Cruse, F. Hundsnurscher, M. Job and P. R. Lutzeier eds Lexicology (Vol. 1) Berlin and New York, Walter de Gruyter pp. 709-804

  26. Peters, P.H., (2001) Corpus evidence on Australian style and usage, in D. Blair and P. Collins eds. English in Australia Amsterdam, John Benjamins pp. 163-178

  27. Peters, P.H., (2001) The Latin Legacy, in K. Aijmer ed. Festschrift for Göran Kjellmer. Gothenburg, Gothenburg Studies in English pp. 81-93

  28. Peters, P.H., (2001) Varietal effects, in B. Moore ed. Who’s Centric Now? Melbourne, Oxford University Press pp. 297-309

  29. Peters, P.H., (2001) Kaleidoscope: a final report on the worldwide Langscape project. English Today 17:1 pp 9-20

  30. Peters, P.H., (2000) Paradigm split in C. Mair and M. Hundt eds. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. Amsterdam, Rodopi pp. 301-316

  31. Peters, P.H., (2000) Orthography and Identity English Today 16:3 pp 37-41

  32. Peters, P.H., (1999) Unfriendly Persuasion The Australian Editor 2. pp 9-12

  33. Peters, P.H., (1999) How English is English? in The AMEP: 50 Years of Nation Building Adult Migrant Education Service CD ROM.

  34. Peters, P.H.,(1998) Australian English, in P. Bell and R. Bell eds Americanization and Australia Sydney UNSW Press pp 32-44

  35. Peters, P.H., (1998) In quest of international English: mapping the levels of regional divergence, in A Renouf ed. Explorations in Corpus Linguistics Amsterdam Rodopi. pp 281-292

  36. Peters, P.H., (1998) The survival of the subjunctive: evidence of its use in Australia and elsewhere English World-Wide 19:2 pp 87-102

  37. Peters, P.H. and Young, W., (1997) English grammar and the lexicography of usage Journal of English Linguistics 25:4 pp 315-331

  38. Peters, P.H., (1997) Micro- and macro-linguistics for natural language processing, in A. Wichmann et al. ed. Teaching and Language Corpora London Longman, pp 175-184

  39. Peters, P.H. and Delbridge A., (1997) Fowler’s legacy, in EW Schneider ed. Festschrift in Honour of Manfred Goerlach Amsterdam John Benjamins, 1997) pp 301-318

  40. Peters, P.H., (1996) In search of Australian style English Today 12:1 (1996) pp. 1-10

  41. Peters, P.H., (1996) Comparative insights into comparison World Englishes 15.1 pp 57-68

  42. Peters, P.H., (1994) American and British influence in Australian verb morphology, in U. Fries et al. edd. Creating and Using English Language Corpora Amsterdam: Rodopi pp. 149-158

  43. Peters, P.H., (1993) Corpus evidence on some points of usage, in J. Aarts et al. edd. English language corpora: design, analysis and exploitation Amsterdam: Rodopi pp. 247-256

  44. Green, E. and Peters, P.H., (1991) The Australian corpus project and Australian English ICAME Journal pp. 37-53

  45. Peters, P.H., Purvis, H. Martin, C. and Jenkins, R., (1990) Word frequencies from the Macquarie corpus; the newspaper files Working Papers of the Speech, Hearing and Language Research Centre pp. 13-92

  46. Peters, P.H. and Fee, M., (1989) New configurations: the balance of British and American features in Australian and Canadian English Australian Journal of Linguistics vol. 9 pp. 135-147

  47. Peters, P.H., (1989) Render unto Caesar English Today 5:1 p. 46

  48. Peters, P.H. and Delbridge A., (1989) Standardisation in Australian English, in P. Collins and D. Blair edd. Australian English: the language of a new society Brisbane: Queensland University Press pp. 127-137

  49. Peters, P.H., Collins, P., Blair, D. and Brierley, A., (1988) The Australian corpus project: findings on some functional variants in the Australian press Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 11:1 pp. 22-23

  50. Collins, P. and Peters, P.H., (1988) The Australian corpus project, in M Kyto et al. ed. Corpus Linguistics, Hard and Soft. Amsterdam, Rodopi pp. 103-120

  51. Delbridge A. and Peters, P.H., (1988) Dictator, gatekeeper, tally clerk or harmless drudge? in T.L. Burton and J Burton edd. Lexicographical and linguistic studies: essays in honour of G.W. Turner. Oxford: Boydell and Brewer pp. 35-44

  52. Peters, P.H., (1987) Towards a corpus of Australian English ICAME Journal pp. 1-13 (=International Computer Archive of Modern English)

  53. Peters, P.H., (1986) Writing across the curriculum in Australia ERIC ED 264 742 pp. 1-14

  54. Peters, P.H., (1986) Getting the theme across: a study of the dominant function in the academic writing of university students, in B. Couture ed. Functional Approaches to Writing: research perspectives. New York: Pinter/Ablex pp. 169-185

  55. Peters, P.H., (1985) Survey of spelling variants in Australian newspaper style guides Working Papers of the Speech, Hearing and Language Research Centre pp. 35-52

  56. Peters, P.H., (1985) Between empire and ANZUS: orthographic adjustments in Australia, in J. Clark ed. The Cultivated Australian = Beiträge zur Phonetik und Linguistik pp. 381-390

  57. Peters P.H., (1985) Lexis and discourse structure The Writing Instructor. University of Southern California, pp. 138-143

  58. Martin, J.R. and Peters, P.H., (1985) Exposition workshop, in R. Hasan ed. Discourse on Discourse. Sydney, Applied Linguistics Association of Australia pp 61-92

 

 

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