2007. “The Impact of Language Policy on Endangered Languages”.
2006. “The British Heresy in ESL revisited” .
2004. “Linguistic diversity, sustainable development, and the future of the past” .
2003. with Peter Muhlhausler & thomas Edward Dutton. Tok Pisin texts: from the beginning to the present
2002. The Impact of Language Policy on Endangered Languages
2002. Processes of Language Contact: Studies from Australia and the South Pacific
2001. “A corpus-based view of gender in British and American English”.
2000. Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World’s Languages.
1999. The Grammaticalization of the Proximative in Tok Pisin
1999. Creole genesis, attitudes and discourse: studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato.
1998. The Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume IV: 1776-1997.
1997. with Merja Kyto. “Competing forms of adjective comparaison in modern English: What could be more quicker and easier and more effective?”.
1997.” Gender, grammar, and the space in between”.
1995. Birds of a Different Feather: Tok Pisin and Hawaii Creole English as Literary Languages
1994. Hau fo Rait Pijin: Writing in Hawai’i Creole English
1994. “On the Creation and Expansion of Registers: Sports Reporting in Tok Pisin”.
1991. with Deborah Lange. The Use of like as a Marker of Reported Speech and Thought: A Case of Grammaticalization in Progress
1991. Last Tango in Paris.
1991. Language in Australia.
1989. English and Tok Pisin (New Guinea Pidgin English) in Papua New Guinea.
1989. Bilingualism.
1989. “The role of children in linguistic change”.
1986. with M. Martin-Jones. Semilingualism: A Half-Baked Theory of Communicative Competence
1984. Evaluative Reactions to Panjabi/English Code-Switching.
1984. “Towards a typology of relative-clause formation strategies in Germanic” .
1983. “Glottal sloppiness? A sociolinguistic view of urban speech in Scotland”.
1983. Historical Linguistics and Language Change: Progress or Decay?
1981. The Status of Variable Rules in Sociolinguistic Theory
1980. Stylistic Variation and Evaluative Reactions to Speech: Problems in the Investigation of Linguistic Attitudes in Scotland.
(undated). 4 Variation in Language and Gender