Simon J. Greenhill's Publications
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Nagaraja KS, Sidwell P & Greenhill SJ. 2013. A Lexicostatistical Study of the Khasian Languages: Khasi, Pnar, Lyngngam, and War. Mon-Khmer Studies Journal, 42, 1-11.
Greenhill SJ. In Press. Evolution and Language: Phylogenetic Analyses. In The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Wright, JD (Ed). Elsevier.
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Search Ross RM, Greenhill SJ, & Atkinson QD. 2013. Population structure and cultural geography of a folktale in Europe. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 280, 20123065.
Bulbulia J, Atkinson QD, Greenhill SJ, & Gray RD. In Press. First Shots Fired For The Phylogenetic Revolution in Religious Studies: a Commentary on David Sloan Wilson. Cliodynamics.
Bulbulia J, Atkinson QD, Gray RD, & Greenhill SJ. In press. Why Do Religious Cultures Evolve Slowly? In: Charismatic signalling in the history of religions. I. Czachesz & R. Uro (Eds.), Mind, Morality and Magic: Cognitive Science Approaches in Biblical Studies. London: Equinox.
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Search Greenhill SJ, & Gray RD. 2012. Basic vocabulary and Bayesian phylolinguistics: Issues of understanding and representation. Diachronica, 29(4): 523-537.
Bouckaert R, Lemey P, Dunn M, Greenhill SJ, Alekseyenko AV, Drummond AJ, Gray RD, Suchard MA, Atkinson QD. 2012. Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family. Science, 337: 957-960.
Levinson SC, Greenhill SJ, Gray RD, & Dunn M. (2011) Universal typological dependencies should be detectable in the history of language families. Linguistic Typology, 15: 509-534.
Greenhill SJ & Clark R (2011). POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online. Oceanic Linguistics, 50(2), 551-559
Greenhill SJ (2011). Levenshtein distances fail to identify language relationships accurately. Computational Linguistics, 37(4): 689-698.
Dunn M, Greenhill SJ, Levinson SC, & Gray RD. 2011. Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals. Nature. 473, 79–82. doi:10.1038/nature09923
Gray RD, Atkinson QD, & Greenhill SJ (2011). Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 366, 1090-1100.
Currie TE, Greenhill SJ, Gray RD, Hasegawa T, & Mace R (2010) Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific. Nature, 467:801-804.
Gray RD, Bryant D, & Greenhill SJ (2010) On the shape and fabric of human history. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 365:3923-3933
Currie TE, Greenhill SJ, & Mace R (2010). Is horizontal transmission really a problem for phylogenetic comparative methods? A simulation study using continuous cultural traits. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 365:3903-3912
Greenhill SJ, Atkinson QD, Meade A, & Gray RD. (2010) The shape and tempo of language evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 277:2443-2450.
Greenhill SJ, Drummond AJ, & Gray RD (2010) How Accurate and Robust Are the Phylogenetic Estimates of Austronesian Language Relationships? PLoS ONE, 5(3): e9573.
Greenhill SJ, & Gray RD (2009) Darwin, language, and two great Pacific voyages. New Zealand Science Review, 66: 97-101.
Greenhill SJ & Gray RD (2009) Austronesian language phylogenies: Myths and misconceptions about Bayesian computational methods. In Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history: a festschrift for Robert Blust (Pp 375-397). A. Adelaar & A. Pawley (Eds). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Greenhill SJ, Currie TE, & Gray RD (2009) Does horizontal transmission invalidate cultural phylogenies? Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 276: 2299-2306.
Jordan FM, Gray RD, Greenhill SJ, & Mace R (2009) Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 276:1957-1964.
Gray RD, Drummond AJ, & Greenhill SJ (2009) Language Phylogenies Reveal Expansion Pulses and Pauses in Pacific Settlement. Science, 323: 479-483.
Greenhill SJ, Blust R, & Gray RD (2008) The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Atkinson QD, Meade A, Venditti C, Greenhill SJ, & Pagel M (2008) Parsing the Evolution of Language (Letter). Science 320 (5875), 446a.
Atkinson QD, Meade A, Venditti C, Greenhill SJ, & Pagel M (2008) Languages evolve in punctuational bursts. Science, 319, 588.
Gray RD, Greenhill SJ, & Ross RM (2007) The Pleasures and Perils of Darwinizing Culture (with phylogenies). Biological Theory, 2(4): 360-375.
Greenhill SJ, & Gray RD. (2005) Testing Population Dispersal Hypotheses: Pacific Settlement, Phylogenetic Trees, and Austronesian Languages. In: The Evolution of Cultural Diversity: Phylogenetic Approaches. Editors: R Mace, C Holden, & S Shennan. Publisher: UCL Press.
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