Simon Greenhill

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Simon Greenhill is affiliated with the following schools: University of Auckland, Australian National University

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Linguistics

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#879

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Simon Greenhill's Degrees

PhD Linguistics University of Auckland
Masters Linguistics University of Auckland
Bachelors Linguistics University of Auckland

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According to Wikipedia, Simon James Greenhill is a New Zealand scientist who works on the application of quantitative methods to the study of cultural evolution and human prehistory. He is well known for creating and building various linguistics databases, including the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database, TransNewGuinea.org, Pulotu, and many others. In addition to Austronesian, he has contributed to the study of the phylogeny of many language families, including Dravidian and Sino-Tibetan.

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Simon Greenhill's Published Works

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Published Works

Language Phylogenies Reveal Expansion Pulses and Pauses in Pacific Settlement (2009) (617)
Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family (2012) (522)
Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals (2011) (431)
The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics (2008) (224)
Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia (2015) (224)
Languages Evolve in Punctuational Bursts (2008) (212)
Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific (2010) (178)
Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies (2009) (178)
Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure (2019) (164)
On the shape and fabric of human history (2010) (162)
The Pleasures and Perils of Darwinizing Culture (with Phylogenies) (2007) (153)
D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity (2016) (145)
Does horizontal transmission invalidate cultural phylogenies? (2009) (144)
The shape and tempo of language evolution (2010) (114)
Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan (2019) (97)
The evolution of traditional knowledge: environment shapes medicinal plant use in Nepal (2014) (95)
Rate of language evolution is affected by population size (2015) (94)
Evolutionary dynamics of language systems (2017) (89)
Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, advancing data sharing and re-use in comparative linguistics (2018) (89)
Population structure and cultural geography of a folktale in Europe (2013) (81)
Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes (2011) (80)
The Potential of Automatic Word Comparison for Historical Linguistics (2017) (70)
Is horizontal transmission really a problem for phylogenetic comparative methods? A simulation study using continuous cultural traits (2010) (60)
A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family (2018) (55)
Testing population dispersal hypotheses : Pacific settlement, phylogenetic trees, and Austronesian languages (2005) (52)
Austronesian language phylogenies: myths and misconceptions about Bayesian computational methods (2009) (47)
POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online (2012) (47)
Levenshtein Distances Fail to Identify Language Relationships Accurately (2011) (43)
CLICS2: An improved database of cross-linguistic colexifications assembling lexical data with the help of cross-linguistic data formats (2018) (40)
How Accurate and Robust Are the Phylogenetic Estimates of Austronesian Language Relationships? (2010) (40)
The ecological drivers of variation in global language diversity (2018) (36)
Parasites and politics: why cross-cultural studies must control for relatedness, proximity and covariation (2018) (35)
Pulotu: Database of Austronesian Supernatural Beliefs and Practices (2015) (35)
Basic vocabulary and Bayesian phylolinguistics: issues of understanding and representation (2012) (34)
Sequence comparison in computational historical linguistics (2018) (32)
LingPy. A Python Library for Quantitative Tasks in Historical Linguistics. Version 2.6.1 (2017) (29)
Demographic Correlates of Language Diversity (2014) (26)
Lexibank, a public repository of standardized wordlists with computed phonological and lexical features (2021) (23)
Population Size and the Rate of Language Evolution: A Test Across Indo-European, Austronesian, and Bantu Languages (2018) (23)
A Combined Comparative and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Chapacuran Language Family1 (2016) (22)
Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution (2018) (21)
Drivers of geographical patterns of North American language diversity (2019) (20)
Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity (2021) (20)
Universal typological dependencies should be detectable in the history of language families (2011) (19)
The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution (2021) (18)
Cultural and Environmental Predictors of Pre-European Deforestation on Pacific Islands (2016) (17)
CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database (2020) (17)
TransNewGuinea.org: An Online Database of New Guinea Languages (2015) (14)
Overview: Debating the effect of environment on language (2016) (11)
Links between language diversity and species richness can be confounded by spatial autocorrelation (2015) (9)
What smartphone apps may contribute to language evolution research (2018) (8)
Phylogenetic models of language change : three new questions (2013) (6)
Bayesian Phylolinguistics (2020) (6)
Historical, archaeological and linguistic evidence test the phylogenetic inference of Viking-Age plant use (2021) (6)
Phylogenetic Models of Language Change (2013) (6)
Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of linguistic data using BEAST (2021) (5)
Kin Against Kin: Internal Co-selection and the Coherence of Kinship Typologies (2021) (5)
Evolution and Language: Phylogenetic Analyses (2015) (5)
Phylogemetric: A Python library for calculating phylogenetic network metrics (2016) (4)
Research priorities in historical-comparative linguistics: A view from Asia, Australia and the Pacific (2014) (4)
Pathways to social inequality (2019) (4)
LingPy. A Python Library for Quantitative Tasks in Historical Linguistics. Version 2.6.3 (2018) (3)
A lexicostatistical study of the Khasian Languages: Khasi, Pnar, Lyngngam, and War (2013) (3)
Phylogeographic analysis of the Bantu language expansion supports a rainforest route (2022) (3)
Why do religious cultures evolve slowly? The cultural evolution of cooperative calling and the historical study of religions (2013) (3)
The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online (2010) (3)
Untangling the evolution of body-part terminology in Pano: conservative versus innovative traits in body-part lexicalization (2022) (2)
treemaker: A Python tool for constructing a Newick formatted tree from a set of classifications (2018) (2)
LingPy. A Python library for quantitative tasks in historical linguistics. Version 2.6.4 (2018) (2)
Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss (2023) (2)
Blowing in the wind: Using ‘North Wind and the Sun’ texts to sample phoneme inventories (2021) (2)
Managing Historical Linguistic Data for Computational Phylogenetics and Computer-Assisted Language Comparison (2019) (1)
LingPy 2.5 (2016) (1)
The Austronesian Game Taxonomy: A cross-cultural dataset of historical games (2021) (1)
CLLD Concepticon 2.5.0 (2021) (1)
First shots fired for the phylogenetic revolution in religious studies: a commentary on David Sloan Wilson (2014) (1)
Measuring variation in phoneme inventories (2021) (1)
A global analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories (2022) (1)
A recent northern origin for the Uto-Aztecan family (2023) (1)
Games and enculturation: A cross-cultural analysis of cooperative goal structures in Austronesian games (2021) (1)
Mind, Morality and Magic (2013) (1)
Editorial note (2020) (0)
Man, machines and emotions. 1958. (1992) (0)
Parsing the evolution of language - Response (2008) (0)
The evolution of phonological complexity in Austronesian (2009) (0)
lingpy/lingpy: Draft release (2018) (0)
A quantitative global test of the complexity trade-off hypothesis: the case of nominal and verbal grammatical marking (2022) (0)
The Austronesian Game Taxonomy: A cross-cultural dataset of historical games (2021) (0)
Modelling admixture across language levels to evaluate deep history claims (2023) (0)
Speciation patterns across five global religions (2017) (0)
phylogemetric: v1.0.0 (2016) (0)
A recent northern origin for the Uto-Aztecan family: Supplementary Material (2023) (0)
Phylogenetic exploration of language complexity in Austronesian, Bantu and Indoeuropean language families (2020) (0)
The evolution of global religions (2019) (0)
Grambank’s Typological Advances Support Computational Research on Diverse Languages (2023) (0)
CLLD Concepticon 2.4.0 (2020) (0)
Our changing society. (1960) (0)
First shots fired for the phylogenetic revolution in religious studies (Human cultures are primarily adaptive at the group level) (2013) (0)
The ecological drivers of variation in global language diversity (2019) (0)
Do languages and genes share cultural evolutionary history? (2021) (0)
Demographic shifts, inter-group contact, and environmental conditions drive language extinction and diversification (2021) (0)
Supplementary material from "Parasites and politics: why cross-cultural studies must control for relatedness, proximity and covariation" (2018) (0)
Kin Against Kin: Internal Co-selection and the Coherence of Kinship Typologies (2021) (0)
Unravelling Past Cognition: Approaches Across Disciplines (2020) (0)
Overview: Debating the effect of environment on (2016) (0)
dplace: Database of Phylogenies of Languages for the study of Cultural Evolution (2015) (0)
Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity (2021) (0)
Correction to ‘Historical, archaeological and linguistic evidence test the phylogenetic inference of Viking-Age plant use’ (2022) (0)
Darwin, language, and two great Pacific voyages (2009) (0)
Language Evolution and Human History (2011) (0)
Publisher Correction: Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity (2022) (0)
Hospitals: ever-changing social institutions. (1962) (0)

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