Selected Publications
Books
Igboanusi, Herbert & Lothar Peter 2005. Languages in Competition: The struggle for supremacy among Nigeria's major languages, English and Pidgin. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang.
https://www.peterlang.com/document/1097992
Peter, Lothar 1985. Die Komposita mit der Struktur "Verb + Substantiv" und ihre Synonyme im Englischen und im Deutschen. [The "Verb + Noun" compounds and their word-formation-structural synonyms in English and in German]. Ph.D. dissertation. Humboldt University Berlin.
Edited books
Lucko, Peter; Peter, Lothar & Frank Polzenhagen (eds.) 2017. Uwe Carls (compiler). A Dictionary of Indian English with a supplement on word-formation patterns. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.
https://www.univerlag-leipzig.de/catalog/bookstore/article/1824-A_Dictionary_of_Indian_English
Wolf, Hans-Georg; Peter, Lothar & Frank Polzenhagen (eds.) 2008. Focus on English: Linguistic structure, language variation and discursive use. Studies in honour of Peter Lucko. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.
Lucko, Peter; Peter, Lothar & Hans-Georg Wolf (eds.) 2003. Studies in African Varieties of English. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang.
https://www.peterlang.com/document/1095107
Articles and book chapters
Peter, Lothar 2025fc. "Morphological restrictions on English word-formation", in: Müller, Peter O.; Olsen, Susan & Franz Rainer (eds.). Word-Formation, Vol. 2: Special Patterns and Restrictions (Mouton Reader). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 333-348.
Peter, Lothar & Hans-Georg Wolf 2025. "DRESSing and TRAPping modern (native) English and West African English", in: Nwagbo, Osita et al. (eds.). Language, Context and Contextuality. A festschrift in honour of Herbert Igboanusi. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 32-54.
[Historical phonology, with a focus on the "non-natural" change of pre-RP short front vowels]
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-0364-4103-6
Peter, Lothar 2025. "Gambian English", in: Bolton, Kingsley (ed.). The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. Hoboken, N. J.: John Wiley & Sons.
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119518297.eowe00199
Peter, Lothar & Hans-Georg Wolf 2025. "Liberian English", in: Bolton, Kingsley (ed.). The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. Hoboken, N. J.: John Wiley & Sons.
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119518297.eowe00201
Igboanusi, Herbert & Lothar Peter 2016. "The language-in-education politics in Nigeria", in: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 19:5, 563-578.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2015.1031633
Peter, Lothar 2015. "Morphological restrictions on English word-formation", in: Müller, Peter; Ohnheiser, Ingeborg; Olsen, Susan & Franz Rainer (eds.), Word-Formation: An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe, Vol. 2 (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 40/2), 918-931.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110246278-007
Peter, Lothar 2013. "English synthetic, analytic and synthetic again? Are we going round in circles? The cases of the reduced auxiliaries have and will", in: Härtl, Holden (ed.), Interfaces of Morphology (studia grammatica 74). Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 287-301.
https://doi.org/10.1524/9783050063799.287
Peter, Lothar 2008. "The quest for a standard: Some notes on norms, usage and frequency patterns in Nigerian English", in: Wolf, Hans-Georg; Peter, Lothar & Frank Polzenhagen (eds.). Focus on English: Linguistic structure, language variation and discursive use. Studies in honour of Peter Lucko. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 159-171.
Peter, Lothar & Hans-Georg Wolf 2008. "Compiling an exclusive dictionary of West African English: A report on work in progress", in: Bobda, Augustin Simo (ed.), Explorations into Language Use in Africa (Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture 70). Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 221-234.
Peter, Lothar & Hans-Georg Wolf 2007. "A comparison of the varieties of West African Pidgin English", in: World Englishes 26:1, 3-21.
Igboanusi, Herbert & Lothar Peter 2004. "Oppressing the oppressed: The threats of Hausa and English to Nigeria's minority languages", in: International Journal of the Sociology of Language 170, 129-138.
Peter, Lothar 2003. "English in Sudan", in: Peter Lucko; Peter, Lothar& Hans-Georg Wolf (eds.), Studies in African Varieties of English. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 129-149.
Peter, Lothar & Hans-Georg Wolf 2003. "Aku in The Gambia: Terminological problem, functional distribution and popular attitude", in: Lucko, Peter; Peter, Lothar & Hans-Georg Wolf (eds.), Studies in African Varieties of English. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 119-128.
Peter, Lothar; Bobda, Augustin Simo & Hans-Georg 2003. "An account of phonetic and lexical peculiarities of Gambian English", in: English World-Wide 24:1, 43-61.