Language Phylogenies Database:

323 Studies from 634 Authors. 431992 Analyses using 69 Tools. Published in 100 Locations.

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Greenhill, S. J. (2023). Language Phylogenies. The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution, C61P1-C61P248. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869252.013.61.

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Date	Paper	Authors	Languages	Type
2024	Divergence-time estimation in Indo-European: The case of Latin	David Goldstein	Indo-European	dating phylogenetic
2024	Syntactic Structures and the General Markov Models	Sitanshu Gakkhar and Matilde Marcolli	global	phylogenetic
2024	Computational phylogenetics reveal histories of sign languages	Natasha Abner et al.	Sign Languages	phylogenetic
2024	The strength of the phylogenetic signal in syntactic data	Frederik Hartmann and George Walkden	global	phylogenetic
2024	Evolutionary pathways of complexity in gender systems	Olena Shcherbakova and Marc Allassonnière-Tang	global	trait d-statistic
2024	The evolutionary dynamics of how languages signal who does what to whom	Olena Shcherbakova et al.	global	trait d-statistic
2024	Investigating environmental effects on phonology using diachronic models	Frederik Hartmann et al.	Bantu	macroevolutionary
2024	Disentangling Ancestral State Reconstruction in historical linguistics: Comparing classic approaches and new methods using Oceanic grammar	Hedvig Skirgård	Austronesian	asr d-statistic
2024	Headhunting and warfare in Austronesia: A phylogenetic comparative analysis	Boris Gershman and Tinatin Mumladze	Austronesian	d-statistic trait
2023	The time and place of origin of South Caucasian languages: insights into past human societies, ecosystems and human population genetics	Alexander Gavashelishvili et al.	Kartvelian	phylogenetic
2023	Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology	Sam Passmore et al.	global	trait
2023	Métodos numéricos de la bioinformática aplicados al estudio diacrónico de las lenguas chibchas	David Jiménez et al.	Chibchan	phylogenetic
2023	A recent northern origin for the Uto-Aztecan family	Simon J. Greenhill et al.	Uto-Aztecan, Kiowa-Tanoan	phylogenetic dating phylogenetic trait asr
2023	Phylogenetic insight into the origin of tones	Baihui Wu et al. Baihui Wu, Hanzhi Zhang, Menghan Zhang	Sino-Tibetan	trait
2023	Subgrouping in a 'dialect continuum': A Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of the Mixtecan language family	Sandra Auderset et al.	Mixtecan	phylogenetic dating delta qresidual
2023	A Global Lexical Database (GLED) for Computational Historical Linguistics	Tiago Tresoldi	global	phylogenetic
2023	Short vs Long Stem Alternations in Romance Verbal Inflection: The S-Morphome	Borja Herce and Chundra A. Cathcart	Indo-European	trait
2023	Word order evolves at similar rates in main and subordinate clauses	Yingqi Jing et al.	Indo-European	trait
2023	Lexical phylogenetics of the Tupí-Guaraní family: Language, archaeology, and the problem of chronology	Fabrício Ferraz Gerardi et al.	South America	phylogenetic dating tiger delta qresidual phylogeography
2023	Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages	Paul Heggarty et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic dating
2023	Rate variation in language change: Toward distributional phylogenetic modeling	Chundra A. Cathcart	Indo-European, global	trait methodological
2023	Testing Inferences about Language Contact on Morphosyntax: A Typological Case Study on Alorese-Adang Contact	Kaius Sinnemäki and Noora Ahola	Austronesian	asr
2023	The evolution of lexical semantics dynamics, directionality, and drift	Gerd Carling et al.	Indo-European, Kartvelian, Northwest Caucasian, Dagestanian, Uralic, Turkic, Semitic	trait
2023	Valence-dependent mutation in lexical evolution	Joshua Conrad Jackson et al.
2023	Cladística e Historia de la Lengua Alemana: introducción al uso de PAUP	Javier Muñoz-Acebes	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2023	Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena	Joshua Conrad Jackson et al.	global	regression trait d-statistic
2023	Language Phylogenies: Modelling the evolution of language.	Simon J. Greenhill		review
2023	Societies of strangers do not speak grammatically simpler languages	Olena Shcherbakova et al.	global	trait
2023	Coevolution of religious and political authority in Austronesian societies	Oliver Sheehan et al.	Austronesian	regression
2023	Phylogenetic analyses for the origin of sortal classifiers in Mongolic, Tungusic, and Turkic languages	Marc Allassonnière-Tang et al.	Mongolic, Tungusic, Turkic	d-statistic
2023	Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss	Hedvig Skirgård et al.	global	trait
2023	Evolution and Spread of Politeness Systems in Indo-European	Michael Dunn and Kate Bellamy	Indo-European	trait
2023	Phylogenetic evidence reveals early Kra-Dai divergence and dispersal in the late Holocene	Yuxin Tao et al.	Kra-Dai	phylogenetic dating phylogeography delta qresidual
2023	A phylolinguistic classification of the Quechua language family	Frederic Blum et al.	Quechua	phylogenetic
2022	Untangling the evolution of body-part terminology in Pano: conservative versus innovative traits in body-part lexicalization	Roberto Zariquiey et al.	Pano	trait
2022	Detecting contact in language trees: a Bayesian phylogenetic model with horizontal transfer	Nico Neureiter et al.	global	methodological
2022	Bayesian methods for ancestral state reconstruction in morphosyntax: Exploring the history of argument marking strategies in a large language family	Joshua Phillips and Claire Bowern	Pama-Nyungan	trait asr
2022	Divergence and contact in Southern Bantu language and population history: A new phylogeny in cross-disciplinary perspective	Hilde Gunnink et al.	Bantu	phylogenetic trait
2022	Bayesian phylogenetics illuminate shallower relationships among Trans-Himalayan languages in the Tibet-Arunachal area	Mei-Shin Wu et al.	Sino-Tibetan	phylogenetic dating
2022	Phylogenetic signal and rate of evolutionary change in language structures	Nataliia Hübler	Tungusic, Mongolian, Japonic, Koreanic, Turkic	trait d-statistic
2022	Phylogeny of the Turkic Languages Inferred from Basic Vocabulary: Limitations of the Lexicostatistical Methods in an Intensive Contact Situation	Ilya M. Egorov et al.	Turkic	phylogenetic dating
2022	Modelling admixture across language levels to evaluate deep history claims	Nataliia Hübler and Simon J. Greenhill	Tungusic, Mongolian, Japonic, Koreanic, Turkic	structure
2022	Phylogenetic trees: Grammar versus vocabulary	Vladimir N. Polyakov et al.	global	phylogenetic
2022	Phylogeographic analysis of the Bantu language expansion supports a rainforest route	Ezequiel Koile et al.	Bantu	phylogenetic dating phylogeography
2022	Reconstructing the origins of language families and variation	Gerd Carling et al.	global	review
2022	Correcting a bias in {TIGER} rates resulting from high amounts of invariant and singleton cognate sets	Johann-Mattis List	global	tiger methodological
2022	A quantitative global test of the complexity trade-off hypothesis: the case of nominal and verbal grammatical marking	Olena Shcherbakova et al.	global	trait
2022	A phylogenetic classification of Luyia language varieties	Michael R. Marlo et al.	Bantu	phylogenetic
2022	A typology of northwestern Bantu gender systems	Francesca Di Garbo and Annemarie Verkerk	Bantu	asr d-statistic trait
2022	Food storage facilitates professional religious specialization in hunter–gatherer societies	Joseph Watts et al.		d-statistic
2022	There's no escaping phylogenetics	David Goldstein	Indo-European	review
2022	Managing Historical Linguistic Data for Computational Phylogenetics and Computer-Assisted Language Comparison	Tiago Tresoldi et al.		tutorial
2022	Challenges of sampling and how phylogenetic comparative methods help: with a case study of the Pama-Nyungan laminal contrast	Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes and Erich R. Round	Pama-Nyungan	trait tutorial d-statistic
2022	Uralic typology in the light of a new comprehensive dataset	Miina Norvik et al.	Uralic	structure
2022	Evolution and Trade-Off Dynamics of Functional Load	Erich R. Round et al.	Pama-Nyungan	trait
2022	Toward an evolutionary framework for language variation and change	Emmanuel D. Ladoukakis et al.	global	review
2022	Topological Analysis of Syntactic Structures	Alexander Port et al.	global	phylogenetic
2022	A global analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories	Chiara Barbieri et al.	global	macroevolutionary
2022	Areal pressure in grammatical evolution	Chundra A. Cathcart et al.	Indo-European	asr trait phylogenetic phylogeography
2022	The dialect chain of the Timor-Alor-Pantar language family	Gereon A. Kaiping and Marian Klamer	Timor-Alor-Pantar	phylogenetic dating delta qresidual
2021	Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages	Martine Robbeets et al.	Transeurasian, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, Japonic	phylogenetic phylogeography dating
2021	Rapid radiation of the inner Indo-European languages: an advanced approach to Indo-European lexicostatistics	Alexei S. Kassian et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2021	The Tupí-Guaraní language family	Fabrício Ferraz Gerardi and Stanislav Reichert	Tupi-Guarani	phylogenetic delta qresidual
2021	Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of linguistic data using BEAST.	Konstantin Hoffmann et al.		tutorial
2021	Kinship terminologies reveal ancient contact zone in the Hindu Kush	Henrik Liljegren	Hindu Kush	phylogenetic
2021	Investigating diachronic trends in phonological inventories using {BDPROTO}	Steven Moran et al.	global	asr trait
2021	Evolution of initiation rites during the Austronesian dispersal	R Alexander Bentley et al.	Austronesian	asr trait
2021	Environmental factors affect the evolution of linguistic subgroups in Borneo	Alexander D. Smith and Taraka Rama	Austronesian	phylogenetic phylogeography delta qresidual
2021	Reconstructing the evolution of Indo-European grammar	Gerd Carling and Chundra A. Cathcart	Indo-European	asr
2021	A Bayesian approach to the classification of Tungusic languages	Sofia Oskolskaya et al.	Tungusic	phylogenetic dating
2021	Phylogenetic signal in phonotactics	Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes et al.	Pama-Nyungan	trait
2021	Altitude and the distributional typology of language structure: Ejectives and beyond	Matthias Urban and Steven Moran	global, Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan	trait asr
2021	At the boundaries of syntactic prehistory	Andrea Ceolin et al.	Indo-European, Uralic, Basque, Altaic, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, Japonic	phylogenetic
2021	Crouching TIGER, hidden structure: Exploring the nature of linguistic data using TIGER values	Kaj Syrjänen et al.	Uralic	methodological tiger qresidual delta
2021	The Vietic languages: a phylogenetic analysis	Paul Sidwell and Mark Alves	Austro-Asiatic	phylogenetic
2021	Phylogenetic Typology	Gerhard Jäger and Johannes Wahle		trait
2021	The Evolutionary Dynamics of Negative Existentials in Indo-European	Shahar Shirtz et al.	Indo-European	trait
2021	The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution	Cara L. Evans et al.		review tutorial methodological
2021	Can Bayesian phylogeography reconstruct migrations and expansions in linguistic evolution?	Nico Neureiter et al.	global	phylogeography methodological
2021	Exploring correlations in genetic and cultural variation across language families in northeast Asia	Hiromi Matsumae et al.	Asia	phylogenetic
2021	A phylogenetic analysis of dispersal norms, descent and subsistence in Sino-Tibetans	Ting Ji et al.	Sino-Tibetan	trait
2021	Formal Syntax as a Phylogenetic Method	Cristina Guardiano et al.	global	review phylogenetic
2021	Phylogenetics of Indo-European Language Families via an Algebro-Geometric Analysis of Their Syntactic Structures	Kevin Shu et al.		phylogenetic
2021	Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-European alignment patterns	Gerd Carling and Chundra A. Cathcart	Indo-European	trait
2021	Historical, archaeological and linguistic evidence test the phylogenetic inference of Viking-Age plant use	Irene Teixidor-Toneu et al.	Indo-European	trait
2020	A bird's-eye view on South Asian languages through {LSI}	Lars Borin et al.	India	phylogenetic
2020	A test of Generalized Bayesian dating: A new linguistic dating method	Taraka Rama and Søren Wichmann	Abkhaz-Adyge, Afro-Asiatic, Algic, Angan, Anim, Araucanian, Arawakan, Arawan, Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit, Atlantic-Congo, Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Aymaran, Barbacoan, Blue_Nile_Mao, Boran, Border, Bosavi, Caddoan, Cariban, Central_Sudanic, Chibchan, Chicham, Chocoan, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Cochimi-Yuman, Dagan, Dajuic, Dogon, Dravidian, East_Strickland, Eastern_Trans-Fly, Eleman, Eskimo-Aleut, Guahiboan, Guaicuruan, Gunwinyguan, Heibanic, Hmong-Mien, Huitotoan, Ijoid, Indo-European, Iroquoian, Japonic, Kadugli-Krongo, Kakua-Nukak, Kartvelian, Khoe-Kwadi, Kiowa-Tanoan, Kiwaian, Koiarian, Koman, Kuliak, Kxa, Lakes_Plain, Left_May, Lengua-Mascoy, Lower_Sepik-Ramu, Maban, Mande, Maningrida, Manubaran, Matacoan, Mayan, Mixe-Zoque, Mongolic, Morehead-Wasur, Muskogean, Nadahup, Nakh-Daghestanian, Narrow_Talodi, Ndu, Nilotic, North_Halmahera, Nubian, Nuclear_Torricelli, Nuclear_Trans_New_Guinea, Nuclear-Macro-Je, Otomanguean, Pama-Nyungan, Pano-Tacanan, Pauwasi, Pomoan, Quechuan, Saharan, Salishan, Sentanic, Sepik, Sino-Tibetan, Siouan, Sko, Songhay, South_Birds_Head_Family, South_Omotic, Southern_Daly, Suki-Gogodala, Surmic, Ta-Ne-Omotic, Tai-Kadai, Tarascan, Timor-Alor-Pantar, Totonacan, Tucanoan, Tungusic, Tupian, Turkic, Tuu, Uralic, Uru-Chipaya, Uto-Aztecan, Wakashan, Walioic, Western_Daly, Yanomamic, Yawa-Saweru, Yeniseian	macroevolutionary phylogenetic
2020	Numeral classifiers and number marking in Indo-Iranian	Chundra A. Cathcart et al.	Indo-European	trait
2020	Pama–Nyungan grandparent systems change with grandchildren, but not cross-cousin terms or social norms	Catherine Sheard et al.	Pama-Nyungan	trait
2020	More rule than exception: Parallel evidence of ancient migrations in grammars and genomes of Finno-Ugric speakers	Patrícia Santos et al.	Indo-European, Finno-Ugric	phylogenetic
2020	Best practices in justifying calibrations for dating language families	Luke Maurits et al.	Uralic	methodological
2020	Evolutionary dynamics in the dispersal of sign languages	Justin M. Power et al.	Sign Languages	phylogenetic
2020	Indo-European phylogenetics with R	David Goldstein	Indo-European	tutorial
2020	Formal Syntax and Deep History	Andrea Ceolin et al.	Indo-European, Others	phylogenetic delta qresidual
2020	Dated phylogeny suggests early Neolithic origin of Sino-Tibetan languages	Hanzhi Zhang et al.	Sino-Tibetan	phylogenetic dating
2020	Bayesian phylolinguistics infers the internal structure and the time-depth of the Turkic language family	Alexander Savelyev and Martine Robbeets	Turkic	phylogenetic dating
2020	Reconstruction and analysis of phylogenetic network on Tibeto-Burman languages in China	Tianjun Gao	Sino-Tibetan	phylogenetic delta
2020	Phylogenetic linguistic evidence and the Dene-Yeniseian homeland	Igor Yanovich	Dene-Yeniseian	criticism methodological
2020	Bayesian Phylolinguistics	Simon J. Greenhill et al.		review
2020	Kalunga in the Lusophone Context: A Phylogenetic Study	Ana Paulla Braga Mattos and Márcia Santos Duarte Oliveira	Creole languages	phylogenetic
2019	Computational historical linguistics	Gerhard Jäger	global	review
2019	Dialect Typology: Recent Advances	Melanie Röthlisberger and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi		review
2019	Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan	Laurent Sagart et al.	Sino-Tibetan	phylogenetic dating
2019	Revising the Bantu Tree	Peter M. Whiteley et al.	Bantu	phylogenetic
2019	Environmental conditions do not predict diversification rates in the Bantu languages	Robert Beyer et al.	Bantu	macroevolutionary
2019	Influence of the tree prior and sampling scale on Bayesian phylogenetic estimates of the origin times of language families	Andrew M. Ritchie and Simon Y. W. Ho	global	methodological phylogenetic dating
2019	An Automated Framework for Fast Cognate Detection and Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference in Computational Historical Linguistics	Taraka Rama and Johann-Mattis List	global	methodological
2019	Human sound systems are shaped by post-Neolithic changes in bite configuration	Damián E. Blasi et al.	Indo-European	trait
2019	Phylogenetic evidence for Sino-Tibetan origin in northern China in the Late Neolithic	Menghan Zhang et al.	Sino-Tibetan	phylogenetic dating
2019	Detecting non-tree-like signal using multiple tree topologies	Annemarie Verkerk	Austronesian, Indo-European, Sinitic, Japonic	macroevolutionary
2019	Untangling the West-Coastal Bantu mess: identification, geography and phylogeny of the Bantu B50-80 languages	Sara Pacchiarotti et al.	Bantu	phylogenetic
2019	Explaining marriage patterns in a globally representative sample through socio-ecology and population history: A Bayesian phylogenetic analysis using a new supertree	Riana Minocher et al.
2018	Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution	Jiří C. Moravec et al.	global	trait
2018	Using features of a Creole language to reconstruct population history and cultural evolution: tracing the English origins of Sranan	André C. Sherriah et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2018	Bayesian phylolinguistics reveals the internal structure of the Transeurasian family	Martine Robbeets and Remco Bouckaert	Transeurasian, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, Japonic	phylogenetic dating
2018	Coevolution of landesque capital intensive agriculture and sociopolitical hierarchy	Oliver Sheehan et al.	Austronesian	trait d-statistic
2018	The Limits and Potentials of Cladistics in Semitic	Petr Zemánek	Semitic	phylogenetic
2018	Syntactic Phylogenetic Trees	Kevin Shu et al.	global	phylogenetic
2018	Making genealogical language classifications available for phylogenetic analysis	Dan Dediu	global	methodological
2018	Towards identifying the optimal datasize for lexically-based Bayesian inference of linguistic phylogenies	Taraka Rama and Søren Wichmann	Global	methodological
2018	A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family	Vishnupriya Kolipakam et al.	Dravidian	phylogenetic dating delta qresidual
2018	Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies	Joseph Watts et al.	Austronesian	trait regression
2018	The evolution of language families is shaped by the environment beyond neutral drift	Christian Bentz et al.	global	macroevolutionary
2018	Modeling linguistic evolution: a look under the hood	Chundra A. Cathcart	global	review
2018	The deep history of the number words	Mark Pagel and Andrew Meade	Austronesian, Bantu, Indo-European	trait
2018	Three tree priors and five datasets: A study of Indo-European phylogenetics	Taraka Rama	Indo-European	methodological phylogenetic
2018	Typological variation across Mandarin dialects: An areal perspective with a quantitative approach	Pui Yiu Szeto et al.	Sinitic	phylogenetic
2018	Global-scale phylogenetic linguistic inference from lexical resources	Gerhard Jäger	global	phylogenetic
2018	Computational Phylogenetics	Claire Bowern		review
2018	Are Automatic Methods for Cognate Detection Good Enough for Phylogenetic Reconstruction in Historical Linguistics?	Taraka Rama et al.	global	methodological
2018	Phylogeny in Phonology: How Tai Sound Systems Encode Their Past	Rikker Dockum	Kra-Dai	phylogenetic delta qresidual d-statistic
2018	The origin and expansion of Pama–Nyungan languages across Australia	Remco Bouckaert et al.	Pama-Nyungan	phylogenetic dating phylogeography
2018	A New Method for Computational Cladistics: An Afro-Asiatic Case Study	Hezekiah Akiva Bacovcin and David Wilson	Afro-Asiatic	phylogenetic
2017	The typology and classification of French-based creoles: A global perspective.	Aymeric Daval-Markussen	Creoles	phylogenetic
2017	The simple emerging from the complex: Nominal number in Juba Arabic creole.	Yonatan Goldshtein	Creoles	phylogenetic
2017	Dative sickness: A phylogenetic analysis of argument structure evolution in Germanic	Michael Dunn et al.	Indo-European	trait
2017	NP recursion over time: Evidence from Indo-European	Manuel Widmer et al.	Indo-European	trait
2017	From basic to cultural semantics	Carsten Levisen	Creoles	review
2017	Lateral transfer in Stochastic Dollo models	Luke J. Kelly and Geoff K. Nicholls	Austronesian	phylogenetic methodological
2017	Phylogenetics in biology and linguistics	Finn Borchsenius et al.	global, Creoles	review
2017	Similarities and differences among Iberian creoles	Eeva M. Sippola	Creoles	delta
2017	Methods: On the use of networks in the study of language contact	Peter Bakker et al.	Creoles	tutorial
2017	Linguistic homoplasy and phylogeny reconstruction. The cases of Lezgian and Tsezic languages (North Caucasus)	Alexei S. Kassian	Lezgian, Tsezic	phylogenetic
2017	Tongues on the EDGE: language preservation priorities based on threat and lexical distinctiveness	Nicolas Perrault et al.	Austronesian	macroevolutionary
2017	Evolutionary dynamics of language systems	Simon J. Greenhill et al.	Austronesian	macroevolutionary delta qresidual
2017	Cognitive creolistics and semantic primes: A phylogenetic network analysis	Carsten Levisen and Kristoffer Friis Bøegh	Creoles	phylogenetic
2017	Complementing creole studies with phylogenetics	Eeva M. Sippola	Creoles	review
2017	The _Indo-European controversy_ and Bayesian phylogenetic methods	Claire Bowern	Indo-European, Australia	review
2017	Insights From Evolutionary Anthropology on the (Pre)history of the Nuclear Family	Laura Fortunato	Indo-European	review
2017	Afro-Hispanic varieties in comparison: New light from phylogeny	Danae Perez et al.	Creoles	phylogenetic
2017	The semantics of Englishes and Creoles: Pacific and Australian perspectives	Carsten Levisen et al.	Creoles	phylogenetic
2017	Computational analysis of Gondi dialects	Taraka Rama et al.	Dravidian	phylogenetic methodological
2017	West African languages and creoles worldwide	Aymeric Daval-Markussen et al.	Creoles	phylogenetic
2017	Dutch creoles compared with their lexifier	Peter Bakker	Creoles	phylogenetic
2017	New Evidence from Linguistic Phylogenetics Identifies Limits to Punctuational Change	Eric W. Holman and Søren Wichmann	global	macroevolutionary
2017	Linguistics and evolutionary biology continue to cross-fertilize each other and may do so even more in the future, including in the field of creolistics	Finn Borchsenius	Creoles	review
2017	Lexicalization patterns in core vocabulary: A cross-creole study of semantic molecules	Carsten Levisen and Karime Aragón		phylogenetic
2017	Creole typology II: Typological features of creoles: From early proposals to phylogenetic approaches and comparisons with non-creoles	Aymeric Daval-Markussen and Peter Bakker	Creoles	review
2017	{BEASTling}: A software tool for linguistic phylogenetics using {BEAST} 2	Luke Maurits et al.	Indo-European, Austronesian	methodological phylogenetic
2017	Cultural macroevolution matters	Russell D. Gray and Joseph Watts	global	review
2016	A combined comparative and phylogenetic analysis of the Chapacuran language family	Joshua Birchall et al.	Chapacuran	phylogenetic dating delta qresidual
2016	Formal linguistics as a cue to demographic history	Giuseppe Longobardi et al.	Indo-European	review
2016	Phylogenetic reconstruction in syntax: the Parametric Comparison Method	Giuseppe Longobardi and Cristina Guardiano		review
2016	Applying Population Genetic Approaches within Languages	Kaj Syrjänen et al.	Finnish	structure phylogenetic
2016	Decomposing hierarchical alignment: Co-arguments as conditions on alignment and the limits of referential hierarchies as explanations in verb agreement	Alena Witzlack-Makarevich et al.	Kiranti, Algonquian	trait
2016	Darwinian perspectives on the evolution of human languages	Mark Pagel	global	review
2016	Ancestral state reconstruction and loanword detection	Marisa Köllner and Johannes Dellert	Indo-European	trait asr
2016	Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies	Joseph Watts et al.	Austronesian	d-statistic trait
2016	A Phylogenetic Analysis of Stable Structural Features in West African Languages	Kristoffer Friis Bøegh et al.	West Africa	phylogenetic
2016	Investigating the potential of ancestral state reconstruction algorithms in historical linguistics	Gerhard Jäger and Johann-Mattis List		trait asr
2016	A Phylogenetic Comparative Study of Bantu Kinship Terminology Finds Limited Support for Its Co-Evolution with Social Organisation	Myrtille Guillon and Ruth Mace	Bantu	trait
2016	Using hybridization networks to retrace the evolution of Indo-European languages	Matthieu Willems et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2016	Correlated Evolution Or Not? Phylogenetic Linguistics With Syntactic, Cognacy, And Phonetic Data	Giuseppe Longobardi et al.	Indo-European	macroevolutionary
2016	Estimating rates of lexical replacement on phylogenetic trees of languages	Mark Pagel and Andrew Meade	Bantu, Indo-European	trait
2016	Phylogenetic approach to the evolution of color term systems	Hannah J. Haynie and Claire Bowern	Pama-Nyungan	trait
2016	Cultural and Environmental Predictors of Pre-European Deforestation on Pacific Islands	Quentin D. Atkinson et al.	Austronesian	trait
2016	The typology and diachrony of higher numerals in Indo-European: a phylogenetic comparative study	Andreea S. Calude and Annemarie Verkerk	Indo-European	trait
2016	Ancestry sampling for Indo-European phylogeny and dates	Taraka Rama	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2016	A test of coding procedures for lexical data with Tup i-Guaran i and Chapacuran languages	Natalia Chousou-Polydouri et al.	Chapacuran, Tupi-Guarani	methodological
2015	Genealogical relations and lexical distances within the Tupian linguistic family	Ana Vilacy Galucio et al.	Tupian	phylogenetic delta
2015	Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis supports the Indo-European steppe hypothesis	Will Chang et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic dating
2015	A comparison of worldwide phonemic and genetic variation in human populations	Nicole Creanza et al.	global	asr macroevolutionary
2015	A comparison of verbal person marking across Tupian languages	Joshua Birchall	Tupian	trait
2015	Introducing a state-of-the-art phylogenetic classification of the Kikongo Language Cluster	Gilles-Maurice de Schryver et al.	Bantu	phylogenetic
2015	A Bayesian Phylogenetic Classification of Tupi-Guarani	Lev Michael et al.	Tupi-Guarani	phylogenetic
2015	A Sketch of Language History in the Korean Peninsula	Sean Lee	Koreanic	dating phylogenetic structure phylogeography
2015	Borrowing, Character Weighting, and Preliminary Cluster Analysis in a Phylogenetic Analysis of the Ancient Greek Dialects	Christina Michelle Skelton	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2015	Detecting Regular Sound Changes in Linguistics as Events of Concerted Evolution	Daniel J. Hruschka et al.	Turkic	phylogenetic dating
2015	Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals	Rebecca Grollemund et al.	Bantu	phylogenetic dating phylogeography
2015	Evolution and Language: Phylogenetic Analyses	Simon J. Greenhill		review
2015	Towards a Formal Genealogical Classification of the Lezgian Languages (North Caucasus): Testing Various Phylogenetic Methods on Lexical Data	Alexei S. Kassian	Lezgian	phylogenetic
2015	Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia	Joseph Watts et al.	Austronesian	d-statistic asr trait
2015	Across language families: Genome diversity mirrors linguistic variation within Europe	Giuseppe Longobardi et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2015	Improved computational models of sound change shed light on the history of the Tukanoan languages	Thiago Costa Chacon and Johann-Mattis List	Tucanoan	phylogenetic
2015	TransNewGuinea.org: An online database of New Guinea languages	Simon J. Greenhill	Huon Peninsula	phylogenetic qresidual
2015	Quantifying uncertainty in the phylogenetics of Australian numeral systems	Kevin Zhou and Claire Bowern	Pama-Nyungan	trait
2014	Behind Family Trees: Secondary Connections in Uralic Language Networks	Jyri Lehtinen et al.	Uralic	phylogenetic delta
2014	Linguistic phylogenies support back-migration from Beringia to Asia.	Mark A. Sicoli and Gary Holton	Dene-Yeniseian	phylogenetic delta qresidual
2014	Diachronic change in Indo-European motion event encoding	Annemarie Verkerk	Indo-European	asr trait
2014	Phylogenetic reconstruction of Bantu kinship challenges Main Sequence Theory of human social evolution	Christopher Opie et al.	Bantu	trait
2014	Prehistory by Bayesian phylogenetics? The state of the art on Indo-European origins	Paul Heggarty	Indo-European	review
2014	Tracing the roots of syntax with Bayesian phylogenetics	Luke Maurits and Thomas L. Griffiths	global	asr
2014	Oceanic barriers promote language diversification in the Japanese Islands	Sean Lee and Toshikazu Hasegawa	Japonic	phylogenetic delta qresidual macroevolutionary
2014	Language phylogenies	Michael Dunn		review
2014	Historical linguistics as a sequence optimization problem: the evolution and biogeography of Uto-Aztecan languages	Ward C. Wheeler and Peter M. Whiteley	Uto-Aztecan	phylogenetic
2013	Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family (Correction)	Remco Bouckaert et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic dating
2013	Shedding More Light on Language Classification Using Basic Vocabularies and Phylogenetic Methods: A Case Study of Uralic	Kaj Syrjänen et al.	Uralic	phylogenetic
2013	An experimental study comparing linguistic phylogenetic reconstruction methods	François Barbançon et al.	global	methodological
2013	The Phylogenetic Status of Pacific Coast Athabaskan: A Computational Assessment	Justin Spence	Athabaskan	phylogenetic
2013	Trees, thickets, or something in between? Recent theoretical and empirical work in cultural phylogeny	Michael J. O'Brien et al.	global	review
2013	Time and Place in the Prehistory of the Aslian Languages	Michael Dunn et al.	Aslian, Austronesian	phylogenetic dating phylogeography
2013	Evolution of the Ainu Language in Space and Time	Sean Lee and Toshikazu Hasegawa	Ainu	phylogenetic dating phylogeography delta qresidual
2013	Phylogenetic Models of Language Change: Three New Questions	Russell D. Gray et al.		review
2013	Toward a syntactic phylogeny of modern Indo-European languages	Giuseppe Longobardi et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2013	Cultural phylogeography of the Bantu Languages of sub-Saharan Africa	Thomas E. Currie et al.	Bantu	phylogenetic phylogeography
2013	Cultural and climatic changes shape the evolutionary history of the Uralic languages.	Terhi Honkola et al.	Uralic	phylogenetic dating macroevolutionary
2013	First steps towards a typological profile of creoles	Aymeric Daval-Markussen	Creoles	phylogenetic
2013	The Encoding of Manner Predications and Resultatives in Oceanic: A Typological and Historical Overview	Annemarie Verkerk and Benedicte Haraldstad Frostad	Austronesian	trait
2013	A lexicostatistical study of the Khasian languages: Khasi, Pnar, Lyngngam, and War	K. S. Nagaraja et al.	Austroasiatic	phylogenetic dating
2013	Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia	Mark Pagel et al.	Altaic, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, Japonic, Chukchee-Kamchatkan, Dravidian, Inuit-Yupik, Indo-European, Kartvelian, Uralic	phylogenetic dating
2012	Cultural Phylogenetics of the Tupi Language Family in Lowland South America	Robert S. Walker et al.	Tupi	phylogenetic phylogeography trait
2012	The riddle of Tasmanian languages	Claire Bowern	Tasmania, Australia	phylogenetic dating
2012	Linguistic Phylogenetic Inference by PAM-like Matrices	Antonella Delmestri and Nello Cristianini	Indo-European	phylogenetic methodological
2012	Internal Classification of the Alor-Pantar Language Family Using Computational Methods Applied to the Lexicon	Laura C. Robinson and Gary Holton	Timor-Alor-Pantar	phylogenetic delta
2012	Basic vocabulary and Bayesian phylolinguistics: Issues of understanding and representation	Simon J. Greenhill and Russell D. Gray	Austronesian	review
2012	Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family	Remco Bouckaert et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic dating phylogeography
2012	Bringing together linguistic and genetic evidence to test the Bantu expansion	Cesare de Filippo et al.	Bantu	phylogenetic
2012	Computational phylogenetics and the internal structure of Pama-Nyungan	Claire Bowern and Quentin D. Atkinson	Pama-Nyungan	phylogenetic
2012	Abstract Profiles of Structural Stability Point to Universal Tendencies, Family-Specific Factors, and Ancient Connections between Languages	Dan Dediu and Stephen C. Levinson	global	trait
2012	Typological profile: L1 varieties	Benedikt Szmrecsanyi		phylogenetic
2011	Networks uncover hidden lexical borrowing in Indo-European language evolution	Shijulal Nelson-Sathi et al.	Indo-European	macroevolutionary
2011	Reconstructing the History of Residence Strategies in Indo-European{ extemdash}Speaking Societies: Neo-, Uxori-, and Virilocality	Laura Fortunato	Indo-European	trait
2011	Creoles Are Typologically Distinct from Non-Creoles	Peter Bakker et al.	Creole languages	phylogenetic
2011	A Bayesian phylogenetic approach to estimating the stability of linguistic features and the genetic biasing of tone	Dan Dediu	global	trait
2011	Bayesian phylogeography of the Arawak expansion in lowland South America	Robert S. Walker and Lincoln A. Ribeiro	Arawakan	phylogenetic phylogeography
2011	Correlates of Reticulation in Linguistic Phylogenies	Eric W. Holman et al.	global	macroevolutionary delta qresidual
2011	Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes	Russell D. Gray et al.		review
2011	On the Accuracy of Language Trees	Simone Pompei et al.	global	methodological phylogenetic
2011	Bayesian phylogenetic analysis supports an agricultural origin of Japonic languages.	Sean Lee and Toshikazu Hasegawa	Japonic	phylogenetic dating
2011	Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals	Michael Dunn et al.	Austronesian, Bantu, Indo-European, Uto-Aztecan	macroevolutionary
2011	Aslian linguistic prehistory	Michael Dunn et al.	Aslian, Austroasiatic	phylogenetic
2011	A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Evolution of Austronesian Sibling Terminologies	Fiona M. Jordan	Austronesian	trait asr
2011	Reconstructing the History of Marriage Strategies in Indo-European-Speaking Societies: Monogamy and Polygyny	Laura Fortunato	Indo-European	trait
2010	How Accurate and Robust Are the Phylogenetic Estimates of Austronesian Language Relationships?	Simon J. Greenhill et al.	Austronesian	phylogenetic dating
2010	Your place or mine? A phylogenetic comparative analysis of marital residence in Indo-European and Austronesian societies	Laura Fortunato and Fiona M. Jordan	Indo-European, Austronesian	trait asr
2010	Beyond lexicostatistics	Paul Heggarty	Aymara, Quechua	review phylogenetic
2010	Long-Range Comparison between Genes and Languages Based on Syntactic Distances	Vincenza Colonna et al.	Indo-European	macroevolutionary
2010	Social complexity and linguistic diversity in the Austronesian and Bantu population expansions	Robert S. Walker and Marcus J. Hamilton	Austronesian, Bantu	trait
2010	On the shape and fabric of human history	Russell D. Gray et al.	Austronesian, Indo-European	delta qresidual phylogenetic
2010	Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific	Thomas E. Currie et al.	Austronesian	trait
2010	Historical Linguistics in Australia: Trees, Networks and Their Implications.	Claire Bowern	Karnic	phylogenetic
2010	Splits or waves? Trees or webs? How divergence measures and network analysis can unravel language histories	Paul Heggarty et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2010	The shape and tempo of language evolution	Simon J. Greenhill et al.	global, Austronesian, Indo-European	trait phylogenetic
2010	Phonetic comparison, varieties, and networks: Swadesh's influence lives on here too	Jennifer Sullivan and April McMahon		phylogenetic
2009	Darwin, language, and two great Pacific voyages	Simon J. Greenhill and Russell D. Gray	Austronesian	review
2009	Does horizontal transmission invalidate cultural phylogenies?	Simon J. Greenhill et al.	global	methodological
2009	Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies	Fiona M. Jordan et al.	Austronesian	trait
2009	Language Phylogenies Reveal Expansion Pulses and Pauses in Pacific Settlement.	Russell D. Gray et al.	Austronesian	phylogenetic dating
2009	Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages identifies an Early Bronze Age origin of Semitic in the Near East	Andrew Kitchen et al.	Semitic	phylogenetic dating
2009	Explaining the Linguistic Diversity of Sahul Using Population Models	Ger Reesink et al. Ger Reesink, Ruth Singer, Michael Dunn	Trans-New Guinea, Pama-Nyungan, Austronesian, Andamanese, Timor-Alor-Pantar, Other	structure
2009	Evidence for syntax as a signal of historical relatedness	Giuseppe Longobardi and Cristina Guardiano	Europe	phylogenetic
2009	Using WALS and Jazyki mira	Vladimir N. Polyakov et al.	global	phylogenetic
2009	Human language as a culturally transmitted replicator	Mark Pagel		review
2009	Austronesian language phylogenies: Myths and misconceptions about Bayesian computational methods	Simon J. Greenhill and Russell D. Gray	Austronesian	phylogenetic dating
2009	Testing functional hypotheses about cross-cultural variation: A maximum-likelihood comparative analysis of Indo-European marriage practices	Laura Fortunato and Ruth Mace	IndoEuropean	phylogenetic trait
2009	(Un)classifying Shabo: phylogenetic methods and results	Tyler Schnoebelen	Nilo-Saharan	phylogenetic
2009	Contact and Phylogeny in Island Melanesia	Michael Dunn	Island Melanesia	phylogenetic
2008	Genetics, Historical Linguistics and Language Variation	April McMahon and Robert McMahon		review
2008	A Phylogenetic Approach to the History of Cultural Practices	Laura Fortunato	Bantu	review
2008	Tutorial on Computational Linguistic Phylogeny	Johanna Nichols and Tandy Warnow		review
2008	Dated Ancestral Trees from Binary Trait Data and Their Application to the Diversification of Languages	Geoff K. Nicholls and Russell D. Gray	Indo-European	phylogenetic dating
2008	Indo-European languages tree by Levenshtein distance	Maurizio Serva and Filippo Petroni	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2008	Languages Evolve in Punctuational Bursts	Quentin D. Atkinson et al.	Austronesian, Bantu, Indo-European	macroevolutionary
2008	Three fundamental issues in parametric linguistics	Chiara Gianollo et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2008	Language distance and tree reconstruction	Filippo Petroni and Maurizio Serva	Indo-European, Austronesian	phylogenetic
2007	The Pleasures and Perils of Darwinizing Culture (with phylogenies)	Russell D. Gray et al.		review
2007	How to use typological databases in historical linguistic research	Søren Wichmann and Arpiar Saunders	global	review phylogenetic
2007	Testing cladistics on dialect networks and phyla (gallo-romance and southern italo-romance).	Antonella Gaillard-Corvaglia et al.	Oïl Varieties, Southern Italo-Romance	phylogenetic
2007	Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history	Mark Pagel et al.	Indo-European	trait
2006	Rapid Radiation, Borrowing and Dialect Continua in the Bantu Languages	Clare J. Holden and Russell D. Gray	Bantu	phylogenetic
2006	Evolution of English basic vocabulary within the network of Germanic languages	Peter Forster et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2006	Interdisciplinary Indiscipline. Can Phylogenetic Methods Meaningfully Be Applied to Language Data - and to Dating Language?	Paul Heggarty	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2006	Why linguists don't do dates: Evidence from Indo-European and Australian languages	April McMahon and Robert McMahon	Indo-European, Pama-Nyungan	phylogenetic
2006	Quantifying uncertainty in a stochastic model of vocabulary evolution	Geoff K. Nicholls and Russell D. Gray	Indo-European	methodological
2006	A stochastic model of language evolution that incorporates homoplasy and borrowing.	Tandy Warnow et al.	Indo-European	methodological
2006	From bridewealth to dowry?	Laura Fortunato et al.	Indo-European	trait
2006	Cladistic Analysis of Bantu Languages: A New Tree Based on Combined Lexical and Grammatical Data.	Kateřina Rexová et al.	Bantu	phylogenetic
2006	From Species to Languages: a phylogenetic approach to human prehistory	Quentin D. Atkinson	Mayan	phylogenetic dating trait
2006	Stuck in the Forest: Trees, Networks and Chinese Dialects	Mahé Ben Hamed and Feng Wang	Sinitic	phylogenetic
2006	Radiation and Network Breaking in Polynesian Linguistics	David Bryant	Austronesian	methodological phylogenetic
2006	How old is the Indo-European language family? Illumination or more moths to the flame?	Quentin D. Atkinson and Russell D. Gray	Indo-European	review
2005	Swadesh sublists and the benefits of borrowing: An Andean case study	April McMahon et al.	Indo-European, Aymara, Quechua	phylogenetic
2005	Structural Phylogenetics and the Reconstruction of Ancient Language History	Michael Dunn et al.	Island Melanesia	phylogenetic
2005	Untangling our Past: Languages, Trees, Splits and Networks	David Bryant et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2005	Comparison of Maximum Parsimony and Bayesian Bantu Language Trees	Clare J. Holden et al.	Bantu	phylogenetic
2005	Perfect Phylogenetic Networks: A New Methodology for Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Natural Languages	Luay Nakhleh et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2005	Testing population dispersal hypotheses: Pacific settlement, phylogenetic trees and Austronesian languages	Simon J. Greenhill and Russell D. Gray	Austronesian	phylogenetic
2005	Bayesian Estimation of Correlated Evolution Across Cultures: a Case Study of Marriage Systems and Wealth Transfer at Marriage	Mark Pagel and Andrew Meade	Indo-European	tutorial trait
2005	The cow is the enemy of matriliny	Clare J. Holden and Ruth Mace	Bantu	trait
2005	From Words to Dates: Water Into Wine, Mathemagic or Phylogenetic Inference?	Quentin D. Atkinson et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic dating
2005	A phylogenetic approach to cultural evolution	Ruth Mace and Clare J. Holden	global	review
2005	Parametric Comparison and Language Taxonomy	Cristina Guardiano and Giuseppe Longobardi	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2005	A comparison of phylogenetic reconstruction methods on an Indo-European dataset	Luay Nakhleh et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2005	Pushing the time barrier in the quest for language roots	Russell D. Gray	review	review
2005	On Cladistic Reconstruction of Linguistic Trees through Vowel Data	Mahé Ben Hamed et al.	Indo-European, Uralic, Niger-Kordofanian, Afro-Asiatic, Altaic, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, Japonic	phylogenetic
2005	Neighbour-Nets Portray the Chinese Dialect Continuum and the Linguistic Legacy of China's Demic History.	Mahé Ben Hamed	Sinitic	phylogenetic
2004	Recent work in computational linguistic phylogeny	Joseph F. Eska and Donald A. Ringe		criticism
2004	Are Accurate Dates an Intractable Problem for Historical Linguistics?	Quentin D. Atkinson and Russell D. Gray	Indo-European	review
2003	Finding Families: Quantitative Methods in Language Classification	April McMahon and Robert McMahon	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2003	Untangling Oceanic settlement: the edge of the knowable	Matthew E. Hurles et al.	Austronesian	phylogenetic
2003	Cladistic Analysis of Languages: Indo-European Classification Based on Lexicostatistical Data	Kateřina Rexová et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2003	Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin	Russell D. Gray and Quentin D. Atkinson	Indo-European	phylogenetic dating
2003	Toward a phylogenetic chronology of ancient Gaulish, Celtic, and Indo-European	Peter Forster and Alfred Toth	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2003	Reconstructing the evolutionary history of Indo-European languages using answer set programming.	Esra Erdem et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2002	Bantu Language Trees Reflect the Spread of Farming across Sub-Saharan Africa: A Maximum-Parsimony Analysis	Clare J. Holden	Bantu	phylogenetic
2002	Indo-European and Computational Cladistics	Donald A. Ringe et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic
2000	Language Trees Support the Express-Train Sequence of Austronesian Expansion	Russell D. Gray and Fiona M. Jordan	Austronesian	phylogenetic
2000	Maximum likelihood models for glottochronology and for reconstructing linguistic phylogenies	Mark Pagel	Indo-European	phylogenetic methodological
2000	The History, Rate and Pattern of World Linguistic Evolution	Mark Pagel	global	macroevolutionary
1998	Computational Cladistics and the Position of Tocharian	Donald A. Ringe et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic
1998	Evolutionary network analysis of word lists: Visualising the relationships between alpine romance languages	Peter Forster et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic
1997	Mathematical approaches to comparative linguistics	Tandy Warnow	global	review
1996	Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Natural Languages	Tandy Warnow et al.	Indo-European	phylogenetic methodological