Pam Peters

List of John Benjamins publications for which Pam Peters plays a role.

Journal

Title

Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond

Edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins and Adam Smith

[Varieties of English Around the World, G39] 2009. x, 406 pp.
Subjects Comparative linguistics | English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Lising, Loy, Pam Peters and Adam Smith 2020 Code-switching in online academic discourse: Resources for Philippine EnglishEnglish World-Wide 41:2, pp. 131–161 | Article
World Englishes are the product of contact between English and other languages in multilingual habitats through the nativization phase. Yet the actual contexts of code-switching that contribute to the emerging regional variety have scarcely been described. This research focuses on code-switching… read more
Peters, Pam 2015 Response to Davies and FuchsEnglish World-Wide 36:1, pp. 41–44 | Commentary
Commentary to: Davies, Mark, and Robert Fuchs. 2015. "Expanding horizons in the study of World Englishes with the 1.9 billion word Global Web-based English Corpus (GloWbE)". English World-Wide 36:1–28 (This issue). DOI:10.1075/eww.36.1.01dav read more
Peters, Pam 2015 Dual adverbs in Australian EnglishGrammatical Change in English World-Wide, Collins, Peter (ed.), pp. 179–204 | Article
Dual or dual-form adverbs are those found with and without the -ly suffix in modern English (e.g. deep/deeply), providing alternative forms for adverbial constituents or modifiers within the clause. But research on British English has shown decreasing numbers of fully interchangeable pairs. This… read more
Peters, Pam 2014 Differentiation in Australian EnglishThe Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch (eds.), pp. 107–125 | Article
The Differentiation Phase (Phase 5 of Schneider’s Dynamic Model) has so far been reached by only a handful of settler Englishes: American English, Australian English, Canadian English, New Zealand English, with internal diversification as well as unique admixtures of indigenized and adstrate… read more
Fernández, Trinidad, María Aurora Flórez de la Colina and Pam Peters 2011 Terminology and terminography for architecture and building constructionTeaching and Learning Terminology: New strategies and methods, Alcina, Amparo (ed.), pp. 11–35 | Article
Fernández, Trinidad, María Aurora Flórez de la Colina and Pam Peters 2009 Terminology and terminography for architecture and building constructionTeaching and Learning Terminology: New strategies and methods, Alcina, Amparo (ed.), pp. 10–36 | Article
Teaching terminology is a strategic response to the European Educational Convergence guidelines, taken by the Polytechnic University of Madrid. It is vested in a new course “English Terminology for Architecture and Building Construction” offered in the “Master of Techniques and Systems of… read more
This paper explores whether an evolving regional standard of English could impact on the development of neighboring varieties while still consolidating its own identity. In the case of Australian English this can be seen in several kinds of lexical innovation, which are uniquely or strongly… read more
Peters, Pam 2009 The mandative subjunctive in spoken EnglishComparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond, Peters, Pam, Peter Collins and Adam Smith (eds.), pp. 125–138 | Article
Regional variation of the mandative subjunctive has come to light during the twentieth century, with corpus-based research showing it to be standard usage in American English whereas its currency in British English was limited. This research reviews the use of the mandative in spoken data from six… read more
Peters, Pam 2009 Irregular verbs: Regularization and ongoing variabilityComparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond, Peters, Pam, Peter Collins and Adam Smith (eds.), pp. 13–30 | Article
Both language history and mathematical modeling suggest that the English irregular verbs will generally evolve to become more regular. Yet closer investigation of individual verbs and verb groups shows that evolutionary expectations can be overstated. Data from the ICE-corpora for Australian, New… read more
Peters, Pam 2009 EpilogueComparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond, Peters, Pam, Peter Collins and Adam Smith (eds.), pp. 385–398 | Article
Peters, Pam and Yasmin Funk 2009 No in the lexicogrammar of EnglishComparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond, Peters, Pam, Peter Collins and Adam Smith (eds.), pp. 223–240 | Article
This paper analyzes the continuing uses of no in negative collocations in three varieties of English: Australian, New Zealand and British, using their respective ICE corpora. In all three varieties of English, the use of no as determiner in nominal phrase collocations far outnumbers its use in… read more
Peters, Pam 2008 Patterns of negation: The relationship between NO and NOT in regional varieties of EnglishThe Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present, Nevalainen, Terttu, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen (eds.), pp. 147–162 | Article
The choice between NO and NOT in the expression of the negative in English has been found to vary with lexical, syntagmatic, and contextual factors such as medium, register and regional variety. This paper uses matching data from British, American, Australian and New Zealand corpora, in order to… read more
Peters, Pam 2008 International English and its constructionEnglish as an International Language: Challenges and possibilities, Clyne, Michael and Farzad Sharifian † (eds.), pp. 35.1–35.10 | Miscellaneous
Backchannels are a linguistic phenomenon that remains poorly defined. Borrowing of terminology and a reliance on axiomatic definitions has resulted in a diverse nomenclature and an indeterminate inventory of forms. Further, research concentration on backchannels produced in northern hemisphere… read more
Peters, Pam 2001 Corpus evidence on Australian style and usageEnglish in Australia, Blair, David and Peter Collins (eds.), pp. 163–178 | Article
The status of the subjunctive is examined in this Australian study of its manifestations in subordinate clauses: in mandative constructions as well as those expressing purpose, condition, concession and the counterfactual. Data from the Australian ACE corpus (1986) is compared with (a) those from… read more
Peters, Pam and Arthur Delbridge 1997 Fowler’s legacyEnglishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach, Schneider, Edgar W. (ed.), pp. 301–318 | Article
The functional variants of International English are often differently distributed in the different regional standards. With evidence from the corpus of Australian English, this has already been shown for lexical variants such as will/shall, maybe/perhaps etc. In this paper evidence from the… read more