Peter G. Peterson

List of John Benjamins publications in which Peter G. Peterson is involved.

Articles

Peterson, Peter G. 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. 277–292 | Article

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

Peterson, Peter G. 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. 229–250 | Article

Peterson, Peter G. 1998 Past time reference in learner English Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 21:2, pp. 21–42 | Article

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