Peter G. Peterson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Peter G. Peterson plays a role.
Articles
2009 Commas and connective adverbs Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond, Peters, Pam, Peter Collins and Adam Smith (eds.), pp. 275–290
This chapter reports the findings of a corpus-based study of the use of three connective adverbs, however, therefore and thus, to introduce a second main clause within a single orthographic sentence (“run-on sentences”). It is established that these three items still display in this usage all the… read more | Article
1999 On the boundaries of syntax: Non-syntagmatic relations The Clause in English: In honour of Rodney Huddleston, Collins, Peter and David Lee (eds.), pp. 229 ff.
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1998 Past time reference in learner English Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 21:2, pp. 21–42
A “concept-oriented” analysis of past time reference in the English of two French learners provides insight into the communicative strategies employed by advanced language learners. Although these learners have a limited command of past tense morphology, they nevertheless manage to establish past… read more | Article