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.
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. A Dictionary of Indian English with a supplement on word-formation patterns. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag. (Link to the publisher)
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.
Articles and book chapters
Peter, Lothar & Hans-Georg Wolf 2023fc. "DRESSing and TRAPping modern (native) English and West African English", in: Nwagbo, O. et al. (eds.). Language, Context and Contextuality.
[Historical phonology with a focus on the "non-natural" change of Pre-RP short front vowels]
Peter, Lothar 2023fc. "Gambian English", in: Bolton, Kingsley (ed.). The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
Peter, Lothar & Hans-Georg Wolf 2023fc. "Liberian English", in: Bolton, Kingsley (ed.). The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
Igboanusi, Herbert & Lothar Peter 2016. "The language-in-education politics in Nigeria", in: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 19:5, 563-578.
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.
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), 287-301.
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.