Prof Laurie Bauer
Professor of Linguistics
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
address
Phone: 04 463 5619
Fax: 04 463 5604
Location: Room 415, Von Zedlitz Building, Kelburn Pde, Kelburn Campus
List of publications by Laurie Bauer
On this page:
- Books
- Edited works (externally published)
- Edited works (internally published)
- Articles in refereed journals
- Chapters in books
- Papers in conference proceedings
- Encyclopedic entries and chapters in handbooks
- Unrefereed articles
- Selected Reviews and Review Articles
Books
With Erik Andersen. Engelske Udtaleøvelser ('English Pronunciation Exercises'). With accompanying tapes. Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1975. Pp. 71.
The Grammar of Nominal Compounding with special reference to Danish, English and French. Odense University Studies in Linguistics 4. Odense: Odense University Press, 1978. Pp. 250.
With J. M. Dienhart, H. H. Hartvigson and L. Kvistgaard Jakobsen. American English Pronunciation. Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1980. Pp. xi + 295.
With J. M. Dienhart, H. H. Hartvigson and L. Kvistgaard Jakobsen. American English Pronunciation. Supplement: Comparison with Danish. Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1980. Pp. vii + 38.
English Word-formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii + 311. Reprinted regularly.
Perspectives on Words. Views of English 3. Wellington: VUW English Department, 1984. Pp. vi + 97.
Introducing Linguistic Morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1988. Pp ix + 272. Reprinted with corrections, 1992. Reprinted regularly. Second edition, pp. x + 366, published 2003.
Manual of Information to accompany the Wellington Corpus of Written New Zealand English. Wellington: Victoria University, Department of Linguistics. 1993. Pp. iv + 131.
Watching English Change. London & New York: Longmans. 1994. Pp xv + 200.
Vocabulary. London and New York: Routledge. 1998. Pp. xii + 88.
Morphological Productivity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii + 245. Paperback edition published March 2006.
An Introduction to International Varieties of English. 2002. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Pp. viii + 135.
With Winifred Bauer. Playground Talk. Wellington: Victoria University, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. 2003. Pp. viii + 127.
A Glossary of Morphology. 2004. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Pp. viii + 124.
With Janet Holmes and Paul Warren. 2006. Language Matters. Basingstoke: Palgrave. Pp. xii + 266.
The Linguistic Student's Handbook. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Pp. ix + 387.
ISBN978 0 7486 2758 5; 978 0 7486 2759 2
Edited works
With Christine Franzen. Of Pavlova, Poetry and Paradigms. Essays in honour of Harry Orsman. Wellington: Victoria University Press. 1993. Pp. 304.
With Peter Trudgill. Language Myths. Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1998. Pp. xviii + 189. Translated into Korean. Japanese translation published by Kenkyusha, 2003.
With Salvador Valera (eds). 2005. Approaches to Conversion/Zero-Derivation. Münster: Waxmann. Pp. 175.
With Heina Giegerich and Gregory Stump. 2008. Word Structure 1.
Articles in refereed journals
On teaching compound nouns. Prepublications of the English Institute of Odense University No 5 (September, 1976) and Moderna Språk 71 (1977) 325-36.
On lexicalization. Archivum Linguisticum 9 (1978) 3-14.
Compounding the difficulties -- a look at some nominal compounds in Danish. Acta Philologica Scandinavica 32 (1978) 87-113.
On the need for pragmatics in the study of nominal compounding. Journal of Pragmatics 3 (1979) 45-50.
Against word-based morphology. Linguistic Inquiry 10 (1979) 508-9.
Some thoughts on dependency grammar. Linguistics 17 (1979) 301-15.
Patterns of productivity in new formations denoting persons using the suffix -er in modern English. Cahiers de Lexicologie 35 (1979) 26-31.
Deux problèmes au sujet des noms composés comprenant un premier élément verbal en français moderne. Français moderne 48 (1980) 219-24.
The Second Great Vowel Shift? Journal of the International Phonetic Association 9 (1979) 57-66.
The feature 'tense/lax' with special reference to the vowel system of (American) English. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 28 (1980) 244-53.
In the beginning was the word. Te Reo 23 (1980) 73-80.
Strength hierarchies and English. Te Reo 24 (1981) 27-30.
That vowel shift again. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 12 (1982) 48-9.
Stress in compounds: a rejoinder. English Studies 64 (1983) 47-53.
Unnatural phonology in English. Te Reo 25 (1982) 13-22.
Consonant strength hierarchies and Danish. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 6 (1983) 115-28.
Tracing phonetic change in the received pronunciation of British English. Journal of Phonetics 13 (1985) 61-81.
Linking /r/ in RP: some facts. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 14 (1984) 74-9.
Notes on New Zealand English phonetics and phonology. English World-Wide 7 (1986) 225-58.
New Zealand English morphology: some experimental evidence. Te Reo 30 (1987) 37-53.
-Ee, by gum! American Speech 62 (1987) 315-9.
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What is lenition? Journal of Linguistics 24 (1988) 381-92.
A descriptive gap in morphology. Yearbook of Morphology 1 (1988) 17-27.
The verb 'to have' in New Zealand English. English World-Wide 10 (1989) 69-83.
Marginal modals in New Zealand English. Te Reo 32 (1989) 3-16.
Number agreement with collective nouns in New Zealand English. Australian Journal of Linguistics 8 (1988) 247-259.
Be-heading the word. Journal of Linguistics 26 (1990) 1-31.
Level disorder: the case of -er and -or. Transactions of the Philological Society 88 (1990) 97-110.
Scalar productivity and -lily adverbs. In: G. Booij & J. van Marle (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 1991 (1992) 185-91.
With W. Scott Allan. Markedness, markedness inversion and Dependency Phonology. Australian Journal of Linguistics 11 (1992) 151-74.
Lexicalisation and level ordering. Linguistics 30 (1992) 561-68.
The Second Great Vowel Shift revisited. English World-Wide 13 (1992) 253-68.
More -ee words. American Speech 68 (1993) 222-4.
With Paul Nation. Word families. International Journal of Lexicography 6 (1993) 253-79.
Structural Analogy: an examination of some recent claims. Studies in Language 18 (1994) 1-24.
Introducing the Wellington Corpus of Written New Zealand English. Te Reo. 37 (1994) 21-8.
Is the morpheme dead? Wellington Working Papers in Linguistics 7 (1995) 1-16. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 31 (1999) 7-25.
With Janet Holmes. Getting into a flap! /t/ in New Zealand English. World Englishes 15 (1996) 115-124.
No phonetic iconicity in evaluative morphology. Studia Linguistica 50 (1996) 189-206.
With Ingrid Bauer. Word-formation in the playground. American Speech 71 (1996) 111-112.
Is morphological productivity non-linguistic? Acta Linguistica Hungarica 43 (1996) 19-31.
Standard transcriptions and the IPA: a reply to Shibles. Rask 5/6 (1997) 177-182.
Derivational paradigms. Yearbook of Morphology 1996 (1997) 243-256.
A class of English irregular verbs. English Studies 78 (1997) 545-555
Evaluative morphology: a search for universals. Studies in Language 21 (1997) 533-575.
How prescriptive can we be? Te Reo 40 (1997) 3-9.
When is a sequence of noun + noun a compound in English? English Language and Linguistics 2 (1998) 65-86.
Is there a class of neoclassical compounds in English and is it productive? Linguistics 36 (1998) 403-422.
The fat owl of the remove meets the ness peril! English Today 15/2 (1999) 39-42.
On the origins of the New Zealand English Accent. English World-Wide 20 (1999) 287-307.
With Winifred Bauer. Two unrelated changes in the speech of young New Zealanders. Kotare 3/1 (May 2000) 3-9.
With Winifred Bauer. Nova Zelandia est omnis divisa in partes tres. New Zealand English Journal 14 (2000) 7-17.
With Anita Easton. An acoustic study of the vowels of New Zealand English. Australian Journal of Linguistics 20 (2000) 93-117.
With Antoinette Renouf. A corpus-based study of compounding in English. Journal of English Linguistics 29 (2001) 101-123.
With Antoinette Renouf. Contextual clues to word-meaning. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 5 (2001) 231-258.
The diacritic for velarisation. JIPA 31 (2001) 265-268.
With Winifred Bauer. Adjective boosters in the speech of New Zealand children. Journal of English Linguistics 30, 244-257.
With Winifred Bauer. The teacher as dialectological recorder. New Zealand English Journal 16 (2002) 4-17.
Hitting a moving target. English Today 72 (Oct 2002) 55-59.
With Winifred Bauer. The effect of the Maori population on New Zealand dialect areas. Te Reo 43 (2001) 39-61.
With Winifred Bauer. Can we watch regional dialects developing in colonial English? The case of New Zealand. English World-Wide 23 (2002) 169-193.
English prefixation — a typological shift? Acta Linguistica Hungarica 50 (2003) 33-40.
With Winifred Bauer. The persistence of dialect areas. Te Reo 45 (2002) [2004] 37-44.
On the productivity of some (un)productive morphology. Italian Journal of Linguistics 15 (2003) 7-16.
With Lynn Grant. Criteria for redefining idioms. Applied Linguistics 25 (2004) 38-61.
With Richard Arnold. A note regarding "On the power-law distribution of language family sizes", Journal of Linguistics, 42 (2006) 373-376.
Some lexical incidental pronunciations in New Zealand English. New Zealand English Journal, 20 (2006) 1 - 8.
With Paul Warren, Dianne Bardsley, Marianna Kennedy and George Major. 2007. Illustrations of the IPA: New Zeland English. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 37 (1): 97-102.
Some grammatical features of New Zealand English. New Zealand English Journal, 21 (2007) 2-19.
With Jen Hay. Phoneme inventory and population size. Language, 83 (2007) 388-400.
Teaching morphology. Te Reo, 50 (2007) 33-40.
Derivational morphology. Language and Liguistics Compass. 2007. doi:10.1111/j.1749-818X.2007.00045.x
With Winifred Bauer. Playing with tradition. Journal of Folklore Research, 44 (2007) 185-203.
A question of identity: a response to Trudgill. Language in Society, 37 (2008) 270-273.
Contrast in language and linguistics. Journal of English Linguistics, 36 (2008) 93-98.
Dvandva. Word Structure, 1 (2008) 1-20.
Homogeneity, heterogeneity and New Zealand English. New Zealand English Journal, 22 (2008) 1-8.
The use, non-use and mis-use of phonetics in language primers. Widya Dharma, 18 (2008) 129-139.
Lenition revisited. Journal of Linguistics. 44 (2008) 605-624.
Rhyme in English twentieth-century popular songs (and some other genres). Te Reo, 51 (2008) 3-31.
Chapters in books
Un-bloody-likely words. In L Bauer & C. Franzen (eds), Of Pavlova, Poetry and Paradigms: Essays in honour of Harry Orsman. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1993, 70-77.
English in New Zealand. In R. W. Burchfield (ed), The Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol V: English in Britain and Overseas, Origins and Developments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1994. Pp. 382-429.
Spelling pronunciation and related matters in New Zealand English. In J. Windsor Lewis (ed), Studies in General and English Phonetics. London: Routledge, 1994. Pp. 320-5.
Attempting to trace Scottish influence on New Zealand English. In Edgar W. Schneider (ed), Englishes Around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins (1997), Vol 2, 257-272.
With Peter Trudgill. Introduction. In Laurie Bauer & Peter Trudgill (eds), Language Myths. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1998: xv-xviii.
Myth 16: You shouldn’t say ‘It is me’ because ‘me’ is accusative. In Laurie Bauer & Peter Trudgill (eds), Language Myths. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1998: 132-138.
The dialectal origins of New Zealand English. In Allan Bell & Koenraad Kuiper (eds), New Zealand English. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins and Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2000: 40-52.
With Rodney Huddleston. Lexical word-formation. In Rodney Huddleston & Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002: 1621-1721.
Why are we linguists and not linguisticians? In Katja Lenz & Ruth Möhlig (eds), Of dyuersitie & chaunge of langage; essays presented to Manfred Görlach on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Heidelberg: Winter, 2002, 27-32.
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Adjectives, compounds and words. In Nordic Journal of English Studies 3/1 (= Worlds of Words: A tribute to Arne Zettersten) (2004) 7-22. Click here to download.
The phonotactics of some English morphology. In Henrik Galberg Jacobsen, Dorthe Bleses, Thomas O. Madsen & Pia Thomsen (eds), Take Danish for Instance. Linguistic studies in honour of Hans Basbøll presented on the occasion of his 60th birthday 12 July 2003. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2003: 1-8. Click here to download.
The function of word-formation and the inflection-derivation distinction. In Henk Aertsen, Mike Hannay & Rod Lyall (eds), Words in their Places. A festschrift for J. Lachlan Mackenzie. Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit, 2004, 283-292. Click here to download.
With Paul Warren. New Zealand English: phonology. In Bernd Kortmann, Edgar W. Schneider, Kate Burridge, Rajend Mesthrie and Clive Upton (eds), A Handbook of Varieties of English. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004, 580-602.
With Paul Warren. Maori English : phonology. In Bernd Kortmann, Edgar W. Schneider, Kate Burridge, Rajend Mesthrie and Clive Upton (eds), A Handbook of Varieties of English. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004, 614-624.
Ee-Z reading and the formation of words. In Claudia Gross, Harriet D. Lyons & Dorothy A. Counts (eds), A Polymath Anthropologist: Essay in honour of Ann Chowning. Research in Anthropology and Linguistics Monograph #6, Auckland: University of Auckland, 2005, 177-181.
With Salavador Valera. Conversion or zero-derivation: an introduction. In Laurie Bauer & Slavador Valera (eds), Approaches to Conversion/Zero-Derivation. Münster: Wamann, 2005, 7-17.
Conversion and the notion of lexical category. In Laurie Bauer & Salvador Valera (eds), Approaches to Conversion/Zero-Derivation. Münster: Wamann, 2005, 19-30.
Productivity: theories. In P. Stekauer & R. Lieber (eds), Handbook of Word-formattion. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005, 315-334.
Competition in English word-formation. In Ans van Kemenade & Bettelou Los (eds), The Handbook of the History of English. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006, 177-198.
With Winifred Baur. Regional dialects in New Zealand children's playground vocabulary. In Allan Bell, Ray Harlow & Donna Starks (eds), Languages of New Zealand. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2005, 194-216.
Compounds and minor word-formation types. In Bas Aarts & April McMahon (eds), The Handbook of English Linguistics, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006, 483-506.
Les composés exocentriques de l'anglais. In Dany Amiot (ed.), La composition dans une perspective typologique, Arras: Artois Presses Université, 2008, 35-47. Click here to download.
Typology of compounds. In Rochelle Lieber & Pavol Štekauer (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Compounding. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, 343-356.
IE, Germanic: Danish. In Rochelle Lieber & Pavol Štekauer (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Compounding. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, 400-416.
Papers in conference proceedings
Compounds and case grammar. In E. Hovdhaugen (ed), Papers from the Second Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Lysebu, April 19-20, 1975, University of Oslo, 55-67.
It all depends. In F. Karlsson (ed), Papers from the Third Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Hanasaari, October 1-3, 1976, Turku, 39-49.
Productivity in word-formation. In K. Gregersen (ed), Papers from the Fourth Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Hindsgavl, January 6-8, 1978, Odense, 333-7.
Progress with a corpus of New Zealand English and early results. In C. Souter & Eric Atwell (eds), Corpus-Based Computational Linguistics. Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi, 1993, 1-10.
Another marginal phoneme of English. Proceedings ICPhS 1995 Stockholm, Vol 3, 354-357.
What you can do with derivational morphology. In S. Bendjaballah, W.U. Dressler, O.E. Pfeiffer & M. Voeikova (eds), Morphology 2000. Selected papers from the 9th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna 24-28 February 2000. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2002, 37-48.
Globality and locality in New Zealand. In P.H. Peters (ed), From Local to Global English. Proceedings of the Australian Style Council Conference 2001. Macquarie University: Dictionary Research Centre, 2003, 54-67.
The illusory distinction between lexical and encyclopedic. To appear in Proceedings on Eleventh International Symposium on Lexicography. Click here to download.
With Paul Warrne. 2004. Curing the Goat's Mouth. In S, Cassidy, F. Cox, R. Mannel & S. Palethorpe (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Canberra: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.:215-220.
The borderline between derivation and compounding. 2005. In W.U. Dressler, D. Kastovsky, O.E. Pfeiffer, F. Rainer (eds), Morphology and its Demarcations. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 97-108.
Encyclopedic entries and chapters in handbooks
Various articles on a New Zealand Theme. In T. McArthur (ed), The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Affixation as a means of word-formation. In R.E. Asher (ed), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford etc.: Pergamon Press, 1994, Vol 1, 44-6.
Head and modifier. In R. E. Asher (ed), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford etc.: Pergamon Press, 1994, Vol 3, 1529-32. Reprinted in Keith Brown & Jim Miller (eds), Concise Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories. Oxford: Elsevier Science, 1999.
Lexical innovation. In R. E. Asher (ed), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford etc.: Pergamon Press, 1994, Vol 4, 2153.
Morphology. In R. E. Asher (ed), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford etc.: Pergamon Press, 1994, Vol 5, 2567-8.
Productivity. In R. E. Asher (ed), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford etc.: Pergamon Press, 1994, Vol 6, 3354-57.
Semantic categories: morphological encoding. In R. E. Asher (ed), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford etc.: Pergamon Press, 1994, Vol 7, 3799.
Sound-motivation in word-formation. In R. E. Asher (ed), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford etc.: Pergamon Press, 1994, Vol 8, 4063-4.
Word-formation processes. In R. E. Asher (ed), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford etc.: Pergamon Press, 1994, Vol 9, 5029.
Word. In G. Booij, C. Lehmann & J. Mugdan (eds), Morphology: an International Handbook of Inflection and Word-Formation. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2000, 247-257.
System vs. norm: coinage and institutionalization. In G. Booij, C. Lehmann & J. Mugdan (eds), Morphology: an International Handbook of Inflection and Word-Formation. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2000, 832-840.
Compounding. In Martin Haspelmath, Ekkehard König, Wulf Oesterreicher & Wolfgang Raible (eds), Language Universals and Language Typology. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2001, 695-707.
Inferring variation and change from public corpora. In J.K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill & Natalie Schilling-Estes (eds), The Handbook of Language Variation and Change. Malden, Mass. and Oxford: Blackwell, 2002, 97-114.
Unrefereed articles
Some of the reasons why. Education 30/4 (1981) 14-15.
Learn to count in Samoan and English. The New Zealand Mathematics Magazine 21 (1984) 42-6.
Approaching New Zealand English Grammar. New Zealand English Newsletter 1 (1987) 12-15.
Irregularity in past non-finite verb-forms. New Zealand English Newsletter 3 (1989) 13-15.
A note on the New Zealand weekend. New Zealand English Newsletter 3 (1989) 15-16.
With Lisa Matthewson. Abstracts of honours projects on the phonetics and phonology of New Zealand English. New Zealand English Newsletter 3 (1989) 17-19.
The Pronunciation of New Zealand English. The Heinemann New Zealand Dictionary, Second edition, 1989, pp. 1353-4.
Who speaks New Zealand English? ICE Newsletter 11, 1991.
'New Zild - Strine / Pom = ?' In: 'Australia-New Zealand: Aspects of a Relationship. Proceedings of the Stout Research Centre 8th Annual Conference', Wellington: Stout Research Centre, 1991. (Not paginated).
The tiny magician's apprentice: analysing language with children. Proceedings of the 1st National Conference: Teaching Gifted Students at Secondary Level. Auckland: Special Education Service. Not paginated. Reprinted in Apex 8/2 (1995) 21-30.
With Winifred Bauer. Creeping games. Play and Folklore 38 (July 2000) 1-5.
With Winifred Bauer. New Zealand English or New Zealand Englishes? English in Aotearoa 43 (May 2001) 59-76.
Whither the thesaurus? Wellington Working Papers in Linguistics 13 (2001) 1-6.
How and why the phonological word and the morphosyntactic word do not coincide. Wellington Working Papers in Linguistics 13 (2001) 7-14.
With Winifred Bauer. Anyone for Marbles? NZWords 6 (August 2002): 8.
With Winifred Bauer. Some words from the playground. NZWords 7 (August 2003), 7-8.
Selected Reviews and Review Articles
Review of H. E. Brekle, Generative Satzsemantik und transformationelle Syntax im System der englischen Nominalkomposition, München, 1970. Edinburgh Working Papers in Linguistics 4 (June, 1974) 14-19.
Review of R. Lass, English Phonology and Phonological Theory. Synchronic and diachronic studies, Cambridge, 1976. English Studies 5 (1977) 570-572.
With Winifred Boagey. On 'The Grammar of Case'. Review article of J. M. Anderson, The Grammar of Case, Cambridge, 1971. Linguistics and Philosophy 1 (1977) 119-152.
Review of H. E. Brekle and D. Kastovsky (eds) Perspektiven der Wortbildungsforschung, Bonn, 1977. Journal of Linguistics 15 (1979) 364-9.
Review of T. Lightner, Introduction to English Derivational Morphology, Amsterdam, 1983. Studies in Language 10 (1986) 223-31.
Review of R. Lass, Phonology, Cambridge, 1984. Australian Journal of Linguistics 6 (1986) 114-22.
Review of W. Mayerthaler, Morphological Naturalness, Ann Arbor, 1988, and W. U. Dressler, W. Mayerthaler, O. Panagl and W. U. Wurzel, Leitmotifs in Natural Morphology, Philadelphia and Amsterdam, 1987. Australian Journal of Linguistics 8 (1988) 331-5.
Review of R. P. Botha, Form and Function in Word Formation, Cambridge, 1988. Linguistics 27 (1989) 1137-9.
Review of M. Hammond and M. Noonan (eds), Theoretical Morphology: approaches in modern linguistics, San Diego etc, 1988. Journal of Linguistics 25 (1989) 502-5.
Review of G. Cannon, Historical Change and English Word-Formation, New York, etc., 1987. American Speech 64 (1989) 252-5.
With Scott Allan. Review of J. M. Anderson & C. J. Ewen, Principles of Dependency Phonology, Cambridge, 1987. The Australian Journal of Linguistics 9 (1989) 347-55.
Review of M. E. Moore, Understanding British English, New York, 1989. American Speech 67 (1992) 213-5.
Review of T. Becker, Analogie und morphologische Theorie, München, 1990. Yearbook of Morphology, 1992 264-8.
Review of H. Giegerich, English Phonology, Cambridge 1992. Australian Journal of Linguistics 12 (1992) 321-5.
Review of R. A. Lodge French. From dialect to standard, London and New York: Routledge, 1993. New Zealand Journal of French Studies, 15 (1994) 57-8.
Review of five morphology textbooks. Australian Journal of Linguistics 13 (1993) 251-8
Review of E. & H. Orsman (eds), The New Zealand Dictionary, Auckland: New House, 1994. The Dominion, Sat Oct 29, 1994, p. 20.
Review of Francis Katamba, English Words, London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Linguistics 33 (1995) 1191-1194.
Review of H. W. Orsman, The Dictionary of New Zealand English, Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1997 and Tony Deverson, The New Zealand Pocket Oxford Dictionary, second edition, Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1997. New Zealand Books 7/5 (December 1997), 16-17. Partly reprinted under the title ‘A national taonga’ in NZWords 1/1 (July 1998) 1-3.
Review of Helge Gundersen, Linjedansere og pantomine på sirkhus: Folkeetymologi som morfologisk omtolkning [Tight-rope artists and pantomime at the circus: folk etymology as morphological reinterpretation], Oslo: Novus, 1995. Language 73 (1997) 894-895.
Review of Gunlög Josefsson, On the Principles of Word Formation in Swedish, Lund: Lund University Press, 1997. Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 16 (1998) 271-275.
Review of H. W. Orsman, The Dictionary of New Zealand English, Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1997. English World-Wide 19 (1998) 123-128.
Review of Andrew Spencer & Arnold M. Zwicky (eds), The Handbook of Morphology, Oxford and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1998. Australian Journal of Linguistics 19 (1999) 116-118.
Review of Ingo Plag, Morphological Productivity: Structural Constraints in English Derivation, Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999. Linguistics 37 (1999) 961-967.
Review of Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, The Origins of Complex Language: An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables and Truth, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Linguistics 37 (1999) 967-972.
Review of Martin Haspelmath, Understanding Morphology, London: Arnold, 2002. Journal of Linguistics 39 (2003) 424-427.
Review of Geert Booij, The Morphology of Dutch, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Language 79 (2003) 626-628.