Language Phylogenies Database:

272 Studies from 551 Authors. 2474 Analyses using 63 Tools. Published in 87 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	Languages	Authors	Type
2023	Lexical phylogenetics of the Tupí-Guaraní family: Language, archaeology, and the problem of chronology	South America	Fabrício Ferraz Gerardi et al.	phylogenetic dating tiger delta qresidual phylogeography
2023	Phylogenetic evidence reveals early Kra-Dai divergence and dispersal in the late Holocene	Kra-Dai	Yuxin Tao et al.	phylogenetic dating phylogeography delta qresidual
2023	A phylolinguistic classification of the Quechua language family	Quechua	Frederic Blum et al.	phylogenetic
2023	The evolution of lexical semantics dynamics, directionality, and drift	Indo-European, Kartvelian, Northwest Caucasian, Dagestanian, Uralic, Turkic, Semitic	Gerd Carling et al.	trait
2023	Short vs Long Stem Alternations in Romance Verbal Inflection: The S-Morphome	Indo-European	Borja Herce and Chundra A. Cathcart	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	Indo-European	Javier Muñoz-Acebes	phylogenetic
2023	Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages	Indo-European	Paul Heggarty et al.	phylogenetic dating
2023	Language Phylogenies: Modelling the evolution of language.		Simon J. Greenhill	review
2023	Evolution and Spread of Politeness Systems in Indo-European	Indo-European	Michael Dunn and Kate Bellamy	trait
2023	Testing Inferences about Language Contact on Morphosyntax: A Typological Case Study on Alorese-Adang Contact		Kaius Sinnemäki and Noora Ahola
2023	Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology	global	Sam Passmore et al.	trait
2023	Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss	global	Hedvig Skirgård et al.	trait
2023	The time and place of origin of South Caucasian languages: insights into past human societies, ecosystems and human population genetics	Kartvelian	Alexander Gavashelishvili et al.	phylogenetic
2023	Word order evolves at similar rates in main and subordinate clauses	Indo-European	Yingqi Jing et al.	trait
2023	Phylogenetic analyses for the origin of sortal classifiers in Mongolic, Tungusic, and Turkic languages	Mongolic, Tungusic, Turkic	Marc Allassonnière-Tang et al.	d-statistic
2023	Métodos numéricos de la bioinformática aplicados al estudio diacrónico de las lenguas chibchas	Chibchan	David Jiménez et al.	phylogenetic
2023	Phylogenetic insight into the origin of tones	Sino-Tibetan	Baihui Wu et al. Baihui Wu, Hanzhi Zhang, Menghan Zhang	trait
2023	Societies of strangers do not speak grammatically simpler languages	global	Olena Shcherbakova et al.	trait
2023	Subgrouping in a 'dialect continuum': A Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of the Mixtecan language family	Mixtecan	Sandra Auderset et al.	phylogenetic dating delta qresidual
2023	A recent northern origin for the Uto-Aztecan family	Uto-Aztecan, Kiowa-Tanoan	Simon J. Greenhill et al.	phylogenetic dating phylogenetic trait asr
2022	Phylogenetic signal and rate of evolutionary change in language structures	Tungusic, Mongolian, Japonic, Koreanic, Turkic	Nataliia Hübler	trait d-statistic
2022	Modelling admixture across language levels to evaluate deep history claims	Tungusic, Mongolian, Japonic, Koreanic, Turkic	Nataliia Hübler and Simon J. Greenhill	structure
2022	Toward an evolutionary framework for language variation and change	global	Emmanuel D. Ladoukakis et al.	review
2022	Correcting a bias in {TIGER} rates resulting from high amounts of invariant and singleton cognate sets	global	Johann-Mattis List	tiger methodological
2022	Phylogeny of the Turkic Languages Inferred from Basic Vocabulary: Limitations of the Lexicostatistical Methods in an Intensive Contact Situation	Turkic	Ilya M. Egorov et al.	phylogenetic dating
2022	Phylogeographic analysis of the Bantu language expansion supports a rainforest route	Bantu	Ezequiel Koile et al.	phylogenetic dating phylogeography
2022	A typology of northwestern Bantu gender systems		Francesca Di Garbo and Annemarie Verkerk
2022	Managing Historical Linguistic Data for Computational Phylogenetics and Computer-Assisted Language Comparison		Tiago Tresoldi et al.	tutorial
2022	Untangling the evolution of body-part terminology in Pano: conservative versus innovative traits in body-part lexicalization	Pano	Roberto Zariquiey et al.	trait
2022	The dialect chain of the Timor-Alor-Pantar language family	Timor-Alor-Pantar	Gereon A. Kaiping and Marian Klamer	phylogenetic dating delta qresidual
2022	Evolution and Trade-Off Dynamics of Functional Load	Pama-Nyungan	Erich R. Round et al.	trait
2022	Areal pressure in grammatical evolution		Chundra A. Cathcart et al.
2022	Challenges of sampling and how phylogenetic comparative methods help: with a case study of the Pama-Nyungan laminal contrast	Pama-Nyungan	Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes and Erich R. Round	trait tutorial d-statistic
2022	Reconstructing the origins of language families and variation	global	Gerd Carling et al.	review
2022	Detecting contact in language trees: a Bayesian phylogenetic model with horizontal transfer	global	Nico Neureiter et al.	methodological
2022	Divergence and contact in Southern Bantu language and population history: A new phylogeny in cross-disciplinary perspective	Bantu	Hilde Gunnink et al.	phylogenetic trait
2022	Phylogenetic trees: Grammar versus vocabulary	global	Vladimir N. Polyakov et al.	phylogenetic
2022	Bayesian phylogenetics illuminate shallower relationships among Trans-Himalayan languages in the Tibet-Arunachal area	Sino-Tibetan	Mei-Shin Wu et al.	phylogenetic dating
2022	Uralic typology in the light of a new comprehensive dataset		Miina Norvik et al.
2022	A global analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories	global	Chiara Barbieri et al.	macroevolutionary
2022	A quantitative global test of the complexity trade-off hypothesis: the case of nominal and verbal grammatical marking	global	Olena Shcherbakova et al.	trait
2021	Phylogenetic signal in phonotactics	Pama-Nyungan	Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes et al.	trait
2021	The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution		Cara L. Evans et al.	review tutorial methodological
2021	Reconstructing the evolution of Indo-European grammar	Indo-European	Gerd Carling and Chundra A. Cathcart	asr
2021	Rapid radiation of the inner Indo-European languages: an advanced approach to Indo-European lexicostatistics	Indo-European	Alexei S. Kassian et al.	phylogenetic
2021	Historical, archaeological and linguistic evidence test the phylogenetic inference of Viking-Age plant use	Indo-European	Irene Teixidor-Toneu et al.	trait
2021	Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-European alignment patterns	Indo-European	Gerd Carling and Chundra A. Cathcart	trait
2021	Phylogenetic Typology		Gerhard Jäger and Johannes Wahle
2021	Investigating diachronic trends in phonological inventories using {BDPROTO}	global	Steven Moran et al.	asr trait
2021	Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages	Transeurasian, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, Japonic	Martine Robbeets et al.	phylogenetic phylogeography dating
2021	Kinship terminologies reveal ancient contact zone in the Hindu Kush	Hindu Kush	Henrik Liljegren	phylogenetic
2021	Can Bayesian phylogeography reconstruct migrations and expansions in linguistic evolution?	global	Nico Neureiter et al.	phylogeography methodological
2021	A phylogenetic analysis of dispersal norms, descent and subsistence in Sino-Tibetans	Sino-Tibetan	Ting Ji et al.	trait
2021	Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of linguistic data using BEAST.		Konstantin Hoffmann et al.	tutorial
2021	Exploring correlations in genetic and cultural variation across language families in northeast Asia	Asia	Hiromi Matsumae et al.	phylogenetic
2021	Environmental factors affect the evolution of linguistic subgroups in Borneo	Austronesian	Alexander D. Smith and Taraka Rama	phylogenetic phylogeography delta qresidual
2021	A Bayesian approach to the classification of Tungusic languages	Tungusic	Sofia Oskolskaya et al.	phylogenetic dating
2021	Crouching TIGER, hidden structure: Exploring the nature of linguistic data using TIGER values	Uralic	Kaj Syrjänen et al.	methodological tiger qresidual delta
2021	The Evolutionary Dynamics of Negative Existentials in Indo-European	Indo-European	Shahar Shirtz et al.	trait
2021	The Tupí-Guaraní language family	Tupi-Guarani	Fabrício Ferraz Gerardi and Stanislav Reichert	phylogenetic delta qresidual
2021	At the boundaries of syntactic prehistory	Indo-European, Uralic, Basque, Altaic, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, Japonic	Andrea Ceolin et al.	phylogenetic
2020	Indo-European phylogenetics with R	Indo-European	David Goldstein	tutorial
2020	Pama–Nyungan grandparent systems change with grandchildren, but not cross-cousin terms or social norms	Pama-Nyungan	Catherine Sheard et al.	trait
2020	Best practices in justifying calibrations for dating language families	Uralic	Luke Maurits et al.	methodological
2020	Bayesian Phylolinguistics		Simon J. Greenhill et al.	review
2020	Dated phylogeny suggests early Neolithic origin of Sino-Tibetan languages	Sino-Tibetan	Hanzhi Zhang et al.	phylogenetic dating
2020	Bayesian phylolinguistics infers the internal structure and the time-depth of the Turkic language family	Turkic	Alexander Savelyev and Martine Robbeets	phylogenetic dating
2020	Numeral classifiers and number marking in Indo-Iranian	Indo-European	Chundra A. Cathcart et al.	trait
2020	A bird's-eye view on South Asian languages through {LSI}	India	Lars Borin et al.	phylogenetic
2020	Kalunga in the Lusophone Context: A Phylogenetic Study	Creole languages	Ana Paulla Braga Mattos and Márcia Santos Duarte Oliveira	phylogenetic
2020	Reconstruction and analysis of phylogenetic network on Tibeto-Burman languages in China	Sino-Tibetan	Tianjun Gao	phylogenetic delta
2020	Evolutionary dynamics in the dispersal of sign languages	Sign Languages	Justin M. Power et al.	phylogenetic
2020	Formal Syntax and Deep History	Indo-European, Others	Andrea Ceolin et al.	phylogenetic delta qresidual
2020	A test of Generalized Bayesian dating: A new linguistic dating method		Taraka Rama and Søren Wichmann
2020	Phylogenetic linguistic evidence and the Dene-Yeniseian homeland	Dene-Yeniseian	Igor Yanovich	criticism methodological
2019	Revising the Bantu Tree	Bantu	Peter M. Whiteley et al.	phylogenetic
2019	Influence of the tree prior and sampling scale on Bayesian phylogenetic estimates of the origin times of language families	global	Andrew M. Ritchie and Simon Y. W. Ho	methodological phylogenetic dating
2019	Untangling the West-Coastal Bantu mess: identification, geography and phylogeny of the Bantu B50-80 languages	Bantu	Sara Pacchiarotti et al.	phylogenetic
2019	An Automated Framework for Fast Cognate Detection and Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference in Computational Historical Linguistics	global	Taraka Rama and Johann-Mattis List	methodological
2019	Phylogenetic evidence for Sino-Tibetan origin in northern China in the Late Neolithic	Sino-Tibetan	Menghan Zhang et al.	phylogenetic dating
2019	Detecting non-tree-like signal using multiple tree topologies	Austronesian, Indo-European, Sinitic, Japonic	Annemarie Verkerk	macroevolutionary
2019	Environmental conditions do not predict diversification rates in the Bantu languages	Bantu	Robert Beyer et al.	macroevolutionary
2019	Human sound systems are shaped by post-Neolithic changes in bite configuration	Indo-European	Damián E. Blasi et al.	trait
2019	Computational historical linguistics	global	Gerhard Jäger	review
2019	Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan	Sino-Tibetan	Laurent Sagart et al.	phylogenetic dating
2018	Towards identifying the optimal datasize for lexically-based Bayesian inference of linguistic phylogenies	Global	Taraka Rama and Søren Wichmann	methodological
2018	Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution	global	Jiří C. Moravec et al.	trait
2018	Computational Phylogenetics		Claire Bowern	review
2018	Are Automatic Methods for Cognate Detection Good Enough for Phylogenetic Reconstruction in Historical Linguistics?	global	Taraka Rama et al.	methodological
2018	Global-scale phylogenetic linguistic inference from lexical resources	global	Gerhard Jäger	phylogenetic
2018	The deep history of the number words	Austronesian, Bantu, Indo-European	Mark Pagel and Andrew Meade	trait
2018	The origin and expansion of Pama–Nyungan languages across Australia	Pama-Nyungan	Remco Bouckaert et al.	phylogenetic dating phylogeography
2018	A New Method for Computational Cladistics: An Afro-Asiatic Case Study	Afro-Asiatic	Hezekiah Akiva Bacovcin and David Wilson	phylogenetic
2018	Modeling linguistic evolution: a look under the hood	global	Chundra A. Cathcart	review
2018	Typological variation across Mandarin dialects: An areal perspective with a quantitative approach	Sinitic	Pui Yiu Szeto et al.	phylogenetic
2018	Phylogeny in Phonology: How Tai Sound Systems Encode Their Past	Kra-Dai	Rikker Dockum	phylogenetic delta qresidual d-statistic
2018	Three tree priors and five datasets: A study of Indo-European phylogenetics	Indo-European	Taraka Rama	methodological phylogenetic
2018	The Limits and Potentials of Cladistics in Semitic	Semitic	Petr Zemánek	phylogenetic
2018	Making genealogical language classifications available for phylogenetic analysis		Dan Dediu
2018	Bayesian phylolinguistics reveals the internal structure of the Transeurasian family	Transeurasian, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, Japonic	Martine Robbeets and Remco Bouckaert	phylogenetic dating
2018	The evolution of language families is shaped by the environment beyond neutral drift		Christian Bentz et al.
2018	A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family	Dravidian	Vishnupriya Kolipakam et al.	phylogenetic dating delta qresidual
2017	Linguistic homoplasy and phylogeny reconstruction. The cases of Lezgian and Tsezic languages (North Caucasus)	Lezgian, Tsezic	Alexei S. Kassian	phylogenetic
2017	Tongues on the EDGE: language preservation priorities based on threat and lexical distinctiveness	Austronesian	Nicolas Perrault et al.	macroevolutionary
2017	Evolutionary dynamics of language systems	Austronesian	Simon J. Greenhill et al.	macroevolutionary delta qresidual
2017	Similarities and differences among Iberian creoles	Creoles	Eeva M. Sippola	delta
2017	Methods: On the use of networks in the study of language contact	Creoles	Peter Bakker et al.	tutorial
2017	Insights From Evolutionary Anthropology on the (Pre)history of the Nuclear Family	Indo-European	Laura Fortunato	review
2017	The typology and classification of French-based creoles: A global perspective.	Creoles	Aymeric Daval-Markussen	phylogenetic
2017	New Evidence from Linguistic Phylogenetics Identifies Limits to Punctuational Change	global	Eric W. Holman and Søren Wichmann	macroevolutionary
2017	Computational analysis of Gondi dialects	Dravidian	Taraka Rama et al.	phylogenetic methodological
2017	Lateral transfer in Stochastic Dollo models	Austronesian	Luke J. Kelly and Geoff K. Nicholls	phylogenetic methodological
2017	From basic to cultural semantics	Creoles	Carsten Levisen	review
2017	Lexicalization patterns in core vocabulary: A cross-creole study of semantic molecules		Carsten Levisen and Karime Aragón	phylogenetic
2017	{BEASTling}: A software tool for linguistic phylogenetics using {BEAST} 2		Luke Maurits et al.
2017	Complementing creole studies with phylogenetics	Creoles	Eeva M. Sippola	review
2017	Afro-Hispanic varieties in comparison: New light from phylogeny	Creoles	Danae Perez et al.	phylogenetic
2017	Dative sickness: A phylogenetic analysis of argument structure evolution in Germanic	Indo-European	Michael Dunn et al.	trait
2017	NP recursion over time: Evidence from Indo-European	Indo-European	Manuel Widmer et al.	trait
2017	Creole typology II: Typological features of creoles: From early proposals to phylogenetic approaches and comparisons with non-creoles	Creoles	Aymeric Daval-Markussen and Peter Bakker	review
2017	Cognitive creolistics and semantic primes: A phylogenetic network analysis	Creoles	Carsten Levisen and Kristoffer Friis Bøegh	phylogenetic
2017	Dutch creoles compared with their lexifier	Creoles	Peter Bakker	phylogenetic
2017	The _Indo-European controversy_ and Bayesian phylogenetic methods	Indo-European, Australia	Claire Bowern	review
2017	The semantics of Englishes and Creoles: Pacific and Australian perspectives	Creoles	Carsten Levisen et al.	phylogenetic
2017	Phylogenetics in biology and linguistics	global, Creoles	Finn Borchsenius et al.	review
2017	The simple emerging from the complex: Nominal number in Juba Arabic creole.	Creoles	Yonatan Goldshtein	phylogenetic
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	Creoles	Finn Borchsenius	review
2017	West African languages and creoles worldwide	Creoles	Aymeric Daval-Markussen et al.	phylogenetic
2016	Phylogenetic approach to the evolution of color term systems	Pama-Nyungan	Hannah J. Haynie and Claire Bowern	trait
2016	Estimating rates of lexical replacement on phylogenetic trees of languages	Bantu, Indo-European	Mark Pagel and Andrew Meade	trait
2016	A combined comparative and phylogenetic analysis of the Chapacuran language family	Chapacuran	Joshua Birchall et al.	phylogenetic dating delta qresidual
2016	Using hybridization networks to retrace the evolution of Indo-European languages	Indo-European	Matthieu Willems et al.	phylogenetic
2016	Ancestry sampling for Indo-European phylogeny and dates	Indo-European	Taraka Rama	phylogenetic
2016	A Phylogenetic Analysis of Stable Structural Features in West African Languages	West Africa	Kristoffer Friis Bøegh et al.	phylogenetic
2016	Investigating the potential of ancestral state reconstruction algorithms in historical linguistics		Gerhard Jäger and Johann-Mattis List	trait asr
2016	Cultural and Environmental Predictors of Pre-European Deforestation on Pacific Islands	Austronesian	Quentin D. Atkinson et al.	trait
2016	The typology and diachrony of higher numerals in Indo-European: a phylogenetic comparative study	Indo-European	Andreea S. Calude and Annemarie Verkerk	trait
2016	A test of coding procedures for lexical data with Tup i-Guaran i and Chapacuran languages	Chapacuran, Tupi-Guarani	Natalia Chousou-Polydouri et al.	methodological
2016	Ancestral state reconstruction and loanword detection	Indo-European	Marisa Köllner and Johannes Dellert	trait asr
2016	Darwinian perspectives on the evolution of human languages	global	Mark Pagel	review
2016	A Phylogenetic Comparative Study of Bantu Kinship Terminology Finds Limited Support for Its Co-Evolution with Social Organisation	Bantu	Myrtille Guillon and Ruth Mace	trait
2016	Applying Population Genetic Approaches within Languages	Finnish	Kaj Syrjänen et al.	structure phylogenetic
2015	Detecting Regular Sound Changes in Linguistics as Events of Concerted Evolution	Turkic	Daniel J. Hruschka et al.	phylogenetic dating
2015	Evolution and Language: Phylogenetic Analyses		Simon J. Greenhill	review
2015	Across language families: Genome diversity mirrors linguistic variation within Europe	Indo-European	Giuseppe Longobardi et al.	phylogenetic
2015	Genealogical relations and lexical distances within the Tupian linguistic family	Tupian	Ana Vilacy Galucio et al.	phylogenetic delta
2015	Improved computational models of sound change shed light on the history of the Tukanoan languages	Tucanoan	Thiago Costa Chacon and Johann-Mattis List	phylogenetic
2015	Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals	Bantu	Rebecca Grollemund et al.	phylogenetic dating phylogeography
2015	Borrowing, Character Weighting, and Preliminary Cluster Analysis in a Phylogenetic Analysis of the Ancient Greek Dialects	Indo-European	Christina Michelle Skelton	phylogenetic
2015	Towards a Formal Genealogical Classification of the Lezgian Languages (North Caucasus): Testing Various Phylogenetic Methods on Lexical Data		Alexei S. Kassian
2015	A Sketch of Language History in the Korean Peninsula	Koreanic	Sean Lee	dating phylogenetic structure phylogeography
2015	TransNewGuinea.org: An online database of New Guinea languages	Huon Peninsula	Simon J. Greenhill	phylogenetic qresidual
2015	Quantifying uncertainty in the phylogenetics of Australian numeral systems	Pama-Nyungan	Kevin Zhou and Claire Bowern	trait
2015	A Bayesian Phylogenetic Classification of Tupi-Guarani	Tupi-Guarani	Lev Michael et al.	phylogenetic
2015	Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis supports the Indo-European steppe hypothesis	Indo-European	Will Chang et al.	phylogenetic dating
2015	Introducing a state-of-the-art phylogenetic classification of the Kikongo Language Cluster	Bantu	Gilles-Maurice de Schryver et al.	phylogenetic
2015	A comparison of verbal person marking across Tupian languages	Tupian	Joshua Birchall	trait
2014	Tracing the roots of syntax with Bayesian phylogenetics	global	Luke Maurits and Thomas L. Griffiths	asr
2014	Behind Family Trees: Secondary Connections in Uralic Language Networks	Uralic	Jyri Lehtinen et al.	phylogenetic delta
2014	Historical linguistics as a sequence optimization problem: the evolution and biogeography of Uto-Aztecan languages	Uto-Aztecan	Ward C. Wheeler and Peter M. Whiteley	phylogenetic
2014	Phylogenetic reconstruction of Bantu kinship challenges Main Sequence Theory of human social evolution	Bantu	Christopher Opie et al.	trait
2014	Language phylogenies		Michael Dunn	review
2014	Linguistic phylogenies support back-migration from Beringia to Asia.	Dene-Yeniseian	Mark A. Sicoli and Gary Holton	phylogenetic delta qresidual
2014	Prehistory by Bayesian phylogenetics? The state of the art on Indo-European origins	Indo-European	Paul Heggarty	review
2014	Oceanic barriers promote language diversification in the Japanese Islands	Japonic	Sean Lee and Toshikazu Hasegawa	phylogenetic delta qresidual macroevolutionary
2014	Diachronic change in Indo-European motion event encoding	Indo-European	Annemarie Verkerk	asr trait
2013	Toward a syntactic phylogeny of modern Indo-European languages	Indo-European	Giuseppe Longobardi et al.	phylogenetic
2013	Trees, thickets, or something in between? Recent theoretical and empirical work in cultural phylogeny	global	Michael J. O'Brien et al.	review
2013	Phylogenetic Models of Language Change: Three New Questions		Russell D. Gray et al.	review
2013	A lexicostatistical study of the Khasian languages: Khasi, Pnar, Lyngngam, and War	Austroasiatic	K. S. Nagaraja et al.	phylogenetic dating
2013	The Encoding of Manner Predications and Resultatives in Oceanic: A Typological and Historical Overview	Austronesian	Annemarie Verkerk and Benedicte Haraldstad Frostad	trait
2013	An experimental study comparing linguistic phylogenetic reconstruction methods	global	François Barbançon et al.	methodological
2013	Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family (Correction)	Indo-European	Remco Bouckaert et al.	phylogenetic dating
2013	Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia	Altaic, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, Japonic, Chukchee-Kamchatkan, Dravidian, Inuit-Yupik, Indo-European, Kartvelian, Uralic	Mark Pagel et al.	phylogenetic dating
2013	The Phylogenetic Status of Pacific Coast Athabaskan: A Computational Assessment	Athabaskan	Justin Spence	phylogenetic
2013	Time and Place in the Prehistory of the Aslian Languages	Aslian, Austronesian	Michael Dunn et al.	phylogenetic dating phylogeography
2013	First steps towards a typological profile of creoles	Creoles	Aymeric Daval-Markussen	phylogenetic
2013	Cultural phylogeography of the Bantu Languages of sub-Saharan Africa	Bantu	Thomas E. Currie et al.	phylogenetic phylogeography
2013	Shedding More Light on Language Classification Using Basic Vocabularies and Phylogenetic Methods: A Case Study of Uralic	Uralic	Kaj Syrjänen et al.	phylogenetic
2013	Evolution of the Ainu Language in Space and Time	Ainu	Sean Lee and Toshikazu Hasegawa	phylogenetic dating phylogeography delta qresidual
2013	Cultural and climatic changes shape the evolutionary history of the Uralic languages.	Uralic	Terhi Honkola et al.	phylogenetic dating macroevolutionary
2012	Cultural Phylogenetics of the Tupi Language Family in Lowland South America	Tupi	Robert S. Walker et al.	phylogenetic phylogeography trait
2012	Bringing together linguistic and genetic evidence to test the Bantu expansion	Bantu	Cesare de Filippo et al.	phylogenetic
2012	Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family	Indo-European	Remco Bouckaert et al.	phylogenetic dating phylogeography
2012	Abstract Profiles of Structural Stability Point to Universal Tendencies, Family-Specific Factors, and Ancient Connections between Languages	global	Dan Dediu and Stephen C. Levinson	trait
2012	Basic vocabulary and Bayesian phylolinguistics: Issues of understanding and representation	Austronesian	Simon J. Greenhill and Russell D. Gray	review
2012	Computational phylogenetics and the internal structure of Pama-Nyungan	Pama-Nyungan	Claire Bowern and Quentin D. Atkinson	phylogenetic
2012	Internal Classification of the Alor-Pantar Language Family Using Computational Methods Applied to the Lexicon	Timor-Alor-Pantar	Laura C. Robinson and Gary Holton	phylogenetic delta
2012	The riddle of Tasmanian languages	Tasmania, Australia	Claire Bowern	phylogenetic dating
2011	Aslian linguistic prehistory	Aslian, Austroasiatic	Michael Dunn et al.	phylogenetic
2011	Networks uncover hidden lexical borrowing in Indo-European language evolution	Indo-European	Shijulal Nelson-Sathi et al.	macroevolutionary
2011	Bayesian phylogenetic analysis supports an agricultural origin of Japonic languages.	Japonic	Sean Lee and Toshikazu Hasegawa	phylogenetic dating
2011	On the Accuracy of Language Trees		Simone Pompei et al.
2011	Reconstructing the History of Marriage Strategies in Indo-European-Speaking Societies: Monogamy and Polygyny	Indo-European	Laura Fortunato	trait
2011	Correlates of Reticulation in Linguistic Phylogenies	global	Eric W. Holman et al.	macroevolutionary delta qresidual
2011	A Bayesian phylogenetic approach to estimating the stability of linguistic features and the genetic biasing of tone	global	Dan Dediu	trait
2011	Reconstructing the History of Residence Strategies in Indo-European{ extemdash}Speaking Societies: Neo-, Uxori-, and Virilocality	Indo-European	Laura Fortunato	trait
2011	Bayesian phylogeography of the Arawak expansion in lowland South America	Arawakan	Robert S. Walker and Lincoln A. Ribeiro	phylogenetic phylogeography
2011	Creoles Are Typologically Distinct from Non-Creoles	Creole languages	Peter Bakker et al.	phylogenetic
2011	Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals	Austronesian, Bantu, Indo-European, Uto-Aztecan	Michael Dunn et al.	macroevolutionary
2011	Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes		Russell D. Gray et al.	review
2011	A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Evolution of Austronesian Sibling Terminologies	Austronesian	Fiona M. Jordan	trait asr
2010	Your place or mine? A phylogenetic comparative analysis of marital residence in Indo-European and Austronesian societies	Indo-European, Austronesian	Laura Fortunato and Fiona M. Jordan	trait asr
2010	On the shape and fabric of human history	Austronesian, Indo-European	Russell D. Gray et al.	delta qresidual phylogenetic
2010	Splits or waves? Trees or webs? How divergence measures and network analysis can unravel language histories	Indo-European	Paul Heggarty et al.	phylogenetic
2010	Beyond lexicostatistics	Aymara, Quechua	Paul Heggarty	review phylogenetic
2010	Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific	Austronesian	Thomas E. Currie et al.	trait
2010	Social complexity and linguistic diversity in the Austronesian and Bantu population expansions	Austronesian, Bantu	Robert S. Walker and Marcus J. Hamilton	trait
2010	Historical Linguistics in Australia: Trees, Networks and Their Implications.	Karnic	Claire Bowern	phylogenetic
2010	The shape and tempo of language evolution	global, Austronesian, Indo-European	Simon J. Greenhill et al.	trait phylogenetic
2010	How Accurate and Robust Are the Phylogenetic Estimates of Austronesian Language Relationships?	Austronesian	Simon J. Greenhill et al.	phylogenetic dating
2010	Phonetic comparison, varieties, and networks: Swadesh's influence lives on here too		Jennifer Sullivan and April McMahon	phylogenetic
2009	Human language as a culturally transmitted replicator		Mark Pagel	review
2009	Does horizontal transmission invalidate cultural phylogenies?	global	Simon J. Greenhill et al.	methodological
2009	Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages identifies an Early Bronze Age origin of Semitic in the Near East	Semitic	Andrew Kitchen et al.	phylogenetic dating
2009	Using WALS and Jazyki mira	global	Vladimir N. Polyakov et al.	phylogenetic
2009	Contact and Phylogeny in Island Melanesia	Island Melanesia	Michael Dunn	phylogenetic
2009	Language Phylogenies Reveal Expansion Pulses and Pauses in Pacific Settlement.	Austronesian	Russell D. Gray et al.	phylogenetic dating
2009	Darwin, language, and two great Pacific voyages	Austronesian	Simon J. Greenhill and Russell D. Gray	review
2009	Explaining the Linguistic Diversity of Sahul Using Population Models	Trans-New Guinea, Pama-Nyungan, Austronesian, Andamanese, Timor-Alor-Pantar, Other	Ger Reesink et al. Ger Reesink, Ruth Singer, Michael Dunn	structure
2009	Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies	Austronesian	Fiona M. Jordan et al.	trait
2009	(Un)classifying Shabo: phylogenetic methods and results	Nilo-Saharan	Tyler Schnoebelen	phylogenetic
2009	Evidence for syntax as a signal of historical relatedness	Europe	Giuseppe Longobardi and Cristina Guardiano	phylogenetic
2009	Austronesian language phylogenies: Myths and misconceptions about Bayesian computational methods	Austronesian	Simon J. Greenhill and Russell D. Gray	phylogenetic dating
2008	Languages Evolve in Punctuational Bursts	Austronesian, Bantu, Indo-European	Quentin D. Atkinson et al.	macroevolutionary
2008	Tutorial on Computational Linguistic Phylogeny		Johanna Nichols and Tandy Warnow	review
2008	Genetics, Historical Linguistics and Language Variation		April McMahon and Robert McMahon	review
2008	Dated Ancestral Trees from Binary Trait Data and Their Application to the Diversification of Languages	Indo-European	Geoff K. Nicholls and Russell D. Gray	phylogenetic dating
2007	Testing cladistics on dialect networks and phyla (gallo-romance and southern italo-romance).	Oïl Varieties, Southern Italo-Romance	Antonella Gaillard-Corvaglia et al.	phylogenetic
2007	The Pleasures and Perils of Darwinizing Culture (with phylogenies)		Russell D. Gray et al.	review
2007	Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history	Indo-European	Mark Pagel et al.	trait
2006	Cladistic Analysis of Bantu Languages: A New Tree Based on Combined Lexical and Grammatical Data.	Bantu	Kateřina Rexová et al.	phylogenetic
2006	From Species to Languages: a phylogenetic approach to human prehistory	Mayan	Quentin D. Atkinson	phylogenetic dating trait
2006	Interdisciplinary Indiscipline. Can Phylogenetic Methods Meaningfully Be Applied to Language Data - and to Dating Language?	Indo-European	Paul Heggarty	phylogenetic
2006	Why linguists don't do dates: Evidence from Indo-European and Australian languages	Indo-European, Pama-Nyungan	April McMahon and Robert McMahon	phylogenetic
2006	How old is the Indo-European language family? Illumination or more moths to the flame?	Indo-European	Quentin D. Atkinson and Russell D. Gray	review
2006	Stuck in the Forest: Trees, Networks and Chinese Dialects	Sinitic	Mahé Ben Hamed and Feng Wang	phylogenetic
2006	Quantifying uncertainty in a stochastic model of vocabulary evolution	Indo-European	Geoff K. Nicholls and Russell D. Gray	methodological
2006	From bridewealth to dowry?	Indo-European	Laura Fortunato et al.	trait
2006	Rapid Radiation, Borrowing and Dialect Continua in the Bantu Languages	Bantu	Clare J. Holden and Russell D. Gray	phylogenetic
2006	Radiation and Network Breaking in Polynesian Linguistics	Austronesian	David Bryant	methodological phylogenetic
2006	A stochastic model of language evolution that incorporates homoplasy and borrowing.	Indo-European	Tandy Warnow et al.	methodological
2006	Evolution of English basic vocabulary within the network of Germanic languages	Indo-European	Peter Forster et al.	phylogenetic
2005	Untangling our Past: Languages, Trees, Splits and Networks	Indo-European	David Bryant et al.	phylogenetic
2005	On Cladistic Reconstruction of Linguistic Trees through Vowel Data	Indo-European, Uralic, Niger-Kordofanian, Afro-Asiatic, Altaic, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, Japonic	Mahé Ben Hamed et al.	phylogenetic
2005	Structural Phylogenetics and the Reconstruction of Ancient Language History	Island Melanesia	Michael Dunn et al.	phylogenetic
2005	The cow is the enemy of matriliny	Bantu	Clare J. Holden and Ruth Mace	trait
2005	Neighbour-Nets Portray the Chinese Dialect Continuum and the Linguistic Legacy of China's Demic History.	Sinitic	Mahé Ben Hamed	phylogenetic
2005	Testing population dispersal hypotheses: Pacific settlement, phylogenetic trees and Austronesian languages	Austronesian	Simon J. Greenhill and Russell D. Gray	phylogenetic
2005	Bayesian Estimation of Correlated Evolution Across Cultures: a Case Study of Marriage Systems and Wealth Transfer at Marriage	Indo-European	Mark Pagel and Andrew Meade	tutorial trait
2005	Swadesh sublists and the benefits of borrowing: An Andean case study	Indo-European, Aymara, Quechua	April McMahon et al.	phylogenetic
2005	From Words to Dates: Water Into Wine, Mathemagic or Phylogenetic Inference?	Indo-European	Quentin D. Atkinson et al.	phylogenetic dating
2005	A comparison of phylogenetic reconstruction methods on an Indo-European dataset	Indo-European	Luay Nakhleh et al.	phylogenetic
2005	Pushing the time barrier in the quest for language roots	review	Russell D. Gray	review
2005	Comparison of Maximum Parsimony and Bayesian Bantu Language Trees	Bantu	Clare J. Holden et al.	phylogenetic
2005	Perfect Phylogenetic Networks: A New Methodology for Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Natural Languages	Indo-European	Luay Nakhleh et al.	phylogenetic
2005	A phylogenetic approach to cultural evolution	global	Ruth Mace and Clare J. Holden	review
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?	Indo-European	Quentin D. Atkinson and Russell D. Gray	review
2003	Toward a phylogenetic chronology of ancient Gaulish, Celtic, and Indo-European	Indo-European	Peter Forster and Alfred Toth	phylogenetic
2003	Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin	Indo-European	Russell D. Gray and Quentin D. Atkinson	phylogenetic dating
2003	Untangling Oceanic settlement: the edge of the knowable	Austronesian	Matthew E. Hurles et al.	phylogenetic
2003	Reconstructing the evolutionary history of Indo-European languages using answer set programming.	Indo-European	Esra Erdem et al.	phylogenetic
2003	Finding Families: Quantitative Methods in Language Classification	Indo-European	April McMahon and Robert McMahon	phylogenetic
2003	Cladistic Analysis of Languages: Indo-European Classification Based on Lexicostatistical Data	Indo-European	Kateřina Rexová et al.	phylogenetic
2002	Indo-European and Computational Cladistics	Indo-European	Donald A. Ringe et al.	phylogenetic
2002	Bantu Language Trees Reflect the Spread of Farming across Sub-Saharan Africa: A Maximum-Parsimony Analysis	Bantu	Clare J. Holden	phylogenetic
2000	Language Trees Support the Express-Train Sequence of Austronesian Expansion	Austronesian	Russell D. Gray and Fiona M. Jordan	phylogenetic
1998	Evolutionary network analysis of word lists: Visualising the relationships between alpine romance languages	Indo-European	Peter Forster et al.	phylogenetic
1997	Mathematical approaches to comparative linguistics	global	Tandy Warnow	review
1996	Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Natural Languages	Indo-European	Tandy Warnow et al.	phylogenetic methodological