Simon J. Greenhill
Simon J. Greenhill
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  • Next generation language phylogenies (May 25, 2025)
  • A shared foundation of language change (July 28, 2023)
  • Subgrouping in a `dialect continuum': A Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of the Mixtecan language family (June 4, 2023)
  • Language Phylogenies: Modelling the evolution of language. (May 22, 2023)
  • Modelling admixture across language levels to evaluate deep history claims (March 31, 2023)
  • A recent northern origin for the Uto-Aztecan family (February 22, 2023)
  • Untangling the evolution of body-part terminology in Pano: conservative versus innovative traits in body-part lexicalization (December 9, 2022)
  • A quantitative global test of the complexity trade-off hypothesis: the case of nominal and verbal grammatical marking (December 8, 2022)
  • Grammatical complexity is only weakly influenced by the sociolinguistic environment (December 8, 2022)
  • Phylogeographic analysis of the Bantu language expansion supports a rainforest route (August 2, 2022)
  • Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity. (December 17, 2021)
  • Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of linguistic data using BEAST. (September 23, 2021)
  • Blowing in the wind: Using ‘North Wind and the Sun’ texts to sample phoneme inventories. (June 6, 2021)
  • The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution. (May 17, 2021)
  • Bayesian Phylolinguistics (September 23, 2020)
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    Email me: simon(at)simon(dot)net(dot)nz

    I'm an Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland. Before that I was senior scientist in the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language at Australian National University.

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