By Professor Peter Craig Collins

Journal articles

Collins P, 2024, 'Variation in world Englishes through the lens of negation', World Englishes, 43, pp. 47 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/weng.12638

Collins P, 2023, 'Modals and Quasi-Modals in English World-Wide', Journal of English Linguistics, 51, pp. 265 - 293, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00754242231173720

Collins P, 2023, 'Grammatical variation in World Englishes : An onomasiological study', English World-Wide, 44, pp. 184 - 218, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.21055.col

Collins P, 2022, 'Hypercorrection in English: An intervarietal corpus-based study', English Language and Linguistics, 26, pp. 279 - 305, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1360674321000228

Collins PC, 2022, 'Comment markers in world Englishes', World Englishes, 41, pp. 244 - 270, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/weng.12523

Collins P, 2022, 'Cultural keywords in World Englishes: A GloWbE-based study.', International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems ICAMechS, 45, pp. 5 - 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/icame-2021-0001

Collins P; Korhonen M; Kotze H; Smith A; Yao X, 2021, 'Diachronic register change', Register Studies, 3, pp. 33 - 87, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rs.20003.col

Collins P, 2020, 'Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English', ENGLISH WORLD-WIDE, 41, pp. 372 - 376, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.00056.col

Yao X; Collins P, 2019, 'Developments in Australian, British, and American English Grammar from 1931 to 2006: An Aggregate, Comparative Approach to Dialectal Variation and Change', Journal of English Linguistics, 47, pp. 120 - 149, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0075424219837337

Collins P; Yao X, 2019, 'AusBrown: A new diachronic corpus of Australian English', ICAME Journal, 43, pp. 5 - 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/icame-2019-0001

Collins P; Yao X, 2018, 'Colloquialisation and the evolution of Australian English A cross-varietal and cross-generic study of Australian, British, and American English from 1931 to 2006', English World-Wide, 39, pp. 253 - 277, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.00014.col

Collins PC; Yao X, 2017, '(Review of) Douglas Biber and Randi Reppen (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of English corpus linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.', English Language and Linguistics, 21, pp. 161 - 168

Collins P; Yao X, 2017, 'The Cambridge handbook of English corpus linguistics', ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS, 21, pp. 161 - 168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1360674316000277

YAO X; COLLINS P, 2017, 'Exploring grammatical colloquialisation in non-native English: a case study of Philippine English¹', English Language and Linguistics, pp. 1 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1360674316000599

Collins PC; Borlongan A, 2017, 'Has Philippine English attained linguistic independence? The grammatical evidence.', The Philippine ESL Journal, 19, pp. 10 - 24

Collins P, 2016, 'Grammatical change in the verb phrase in contemporary Philippine english', Asiatic, 10, pp. 50 - 67

Collins PC; Collins PC; Collins PC, 2014, 'Grammatical Change in the Verb Phrase in Australian English: A Corpus-based Study', Australian Journal of Linguistics, 34, pp. 1 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2014.929087

Collins PC; Borlongan AM; Yao X, 2014, 'Modality in Philippine English: a diachronic study', Journal of English Linguistics, 42, pp. 68 - 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0075424213511462

Collins PC, 2014, 'Quasi-modals and modals in Australian English fiction 1800-1899, with comparisons across British and American English', Journal of English Linguistics, 42, pp. 7 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0075424213512857

Collins P; Yao X, 2013, 'Colloquial features in World Englishes', International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 18, pp. 479 - 505, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.18.4.02col

Collins PC, 2013, 'Grammatical variation in English worldwide: the role of colloquialization', Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 8, pp. 289 - 306, http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/lhs.v8i3.289

Collins PC; Yao X, 2013, 'Aspects of the Verbal System of Malaysian English and Other Englishes', 3L Language Linguistics Literature (The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies), 19, pp. 93 - 104, http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/archive

Collins PC; Yao X, 2013, 'Recent change in non-present perfect constructions in British and American English', Corpora, 8, pp. 115 - 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2013.0036

Collins PC, 2012, 'Australian English: Its evolution and current state', International Journal of Language, Translation and Intercultural Communication, 1, pp. 75 - 86

Collins PC, 2012, 'Singular agreement in there-existentials: an intervarietal corpus-based study', English World-Wide, 33, pp. 53 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.33.1.03col

Yao X; Collins PC, 2012, 'The present perfect in world Englishes', World Englishes, 31, pp. 386 - 403, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-971X.2012.01756.x

Collins P, 2010, 'Modality in English: Theory and description', ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS, 14, pp. 507 - 511, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1360674310000171

Collins P, 2010, 'New-Dialect Formation in Canada: Evidence from the English Modal Auxiliaries', WORLD ENGLISHES, 29, pp. 439 - 442, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-971X.2010.01664_4.x

Collins PC; Lee JF, 2010, 'Construction of gender: a comparison of Australian and Hong Kong', Journal of Gender Studies, 19, pp. 121 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09589231003695856

Collins PC; Lee JF, 2009, 'Australian English-Language Textbooks: the Gender Issues', Gender and Education, 21, pp. 353 - 370

Collins PC; Lee JF, 2009, 'English Grammer: An Investigation of hong Kong ESL Books', Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics, 11, pp. 51 - 70

Collins PC, 2009, 'Modals and quasi-modals in world Englishes', World Englishes, 28, pp. 281 - 292

Lee JFK; Collins P, 2008, 'Gender voices in hong kong english textbooks-some past and current practices', Sex Roles, 59, pp. 127 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11199-008-9414-6

Collins PC, 2008, 'A Sociolinguistic Study of Given Names and Nicknames in Australia', MULTILINGUA: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 27, pp. 449 - 452

Collins PC; Lee JF, 2008, 'Gender Voices in Hong Kong English Textbooks- Some Past and Current Practices', Sex Roles, online, pp. 1 - 11

Collins PC, 2008, 'The Progressive Aspect in World Englishes: A Corpus- based Study', Australian Journal of Linguistics, 28, pp. 225 - 251

Collins PC, 2007, 'Can/could and may/might in British, American and Australian English: a corpus based account', World Englishes, 26, pp. 474 - 491

Collins PC, 2007, 'The grammar of the English verb phrase, vol 1, The grammar of the English tense system. A comprehensive analysis, in Cooperation with Susan Reed & Bert Appelle', Folia Linguistica, 41, pp. 461 - 468

Collins PC, 2006, 'Grammar in TEFL: A Critique of Indonesian High School Textbooks', TEFLIN Journal, 17, pp. 1 - 10

Collins PC, 2006, 'It-clefts and wh-clefts: Prosody and pragmatics', Journal of Pragmatics, 38, pp. 1706 - 1720, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2005.03.015

Collins PC; Lee J, 2006, 'Linguistic Acceptability in Hong Kong English', Asian Englishes, 9, pp. 24 - 41

Collins PC; Lee J, 2005, 'English Grammar in Current Hong Kong Textbooks: A Critical Appraisal', TESL Reporter, 38, pp. 37 - 49

Collins PC, 2005, 'Exclamative clauses in English', Word - Journal of the International Linguistic Association, 56, pp. 1 - 17

Collins PC, 2005, 'The modals and quasi-modals of obligation and necessity in Australian English and other Englishes', English World-Wide: a journal of varieties of English, 26, pp. 249 - 273

Collins P, 2004, 'Reversed what-clefts in English', Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 27, pp. 63 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aral.27.2.05col

Collins PC, 2004, 'Let-imperatives in English', International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 9, pp. 299 - 320

Collins PC, 2004, 'On the usage of have, dare, need, ought, and used to, in Australian English and Hong Kong English', World Englishes, 23, pp. 501 - 512

Collins PC, 2004, 'Reversed what clefts in English: information structure and discourse function', Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 27, pp. 63 - 74

Collins PC, 2001, 'Grammars and Corpora', Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, pp. 35 - 41

Collins PC, 2001, 'Some Discourse Functions of Existentials in English', Proceedings of the 2001 Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society, pp. 1 - 6

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