Simon J. Greenhill, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
Linguistics Australian National University, Acton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia 
Area:
computational phylogenetics, language evolution
Website:
https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/greenhill-s

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2023 Shcherbakova O, Michaelis SM, Haynie HJ, Passmore S, Gast V, Gray RD, Greenhill SJ, Blasi DE, Skirgård H. Societies of strangers do not speak less complex languages. Science Advances. 9: eadf7704. PMID 37585533 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adf7704  0.818
2023 Greenhill SJ. A shared foundation of language change. Science (New York, N.Y.). 381: 374-375. PMID 37499023 DOI: 10.1126/science.adj2154  0.432
2023 Heggarty P, Anderson C, Scarborough M, King B, Bouckaert R, Jocz L, Kümmel MJ, Jügel T, Irslinger B, Pooth R, Liljegren H, Strand RF, Haig G, Macák M, Kim RI, ... ... Greenhill SJ, et al. Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages. Science (New York, N.Y.). 381: eabg0818. PMID 37499002 DOI: 10.1126/science.abg0818  0.847
2023 Passmore S, Barth W, Greenhill SJ, Quinn K, Sheard C, Argyriou P, Birchall J, Bowern C, Calladine J, Deb A, Diederen A, Metsäranta NP, Araujo LH, Schembri R, Hickey-Hall J, et al. Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology. Plos One. 18: e0283218. PMID 37224178 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283218  0.847
2023 Skirgård H, Haynie HJ, Blasi DE, Hammarström H, Collins J, Latarche JJ, Lesage J, Weber T, Witzlack-Makarevich A, Passmore S, Chira A, Maurits L, Dinnage R, Dunn M, Reesink G, ... ... Greenhill SJ, et al. Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss. Science Advances. 9: eadg6175. PMID 37075104 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adg6175  0.806
2022 Zariquiey R, Vera J, Greenhill SJ, Valenzuela P, Gray RJ, List JM. Untangling the evolution of body-part terminology in Pano: conservative versus innovative traits in body-part lexicalization. Interface Focus. 13: 20220053. PMID 36659979 DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2022.0053  0.747
2022 Barbieri C, Blasi DE, Arango-Isaza E, Sotiropoulos AG, Hammarström H, Wichmann S, Greenhill SJ, Gray RD, Forkel R, Bickel B, Shimizu KK. A global analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119: e2122084119. PMID 36399547 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2122084119  0.774
2022 Koile E, Greenhill SJ, Blasi DE, Bouckaert R, Gray RD. Phylogeographic analysis of the Bantu language expansion supports a rainforest route. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119: e2112853119. PMID 35914165 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2112853119  0.769
2022 Teixidor-Toneu I, Kool A, Greenhill SJ, Kjesrud K, Sandstedt JJ, Manzanilla V, Jordan FM. Correction to 'Historical, archaeological and linguistic evidence test the phylogenetic inference of Viking-Age plant use'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 377: 20220158. PMID 35491608 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0158  0.602
2022 Bromham L, Dinnage R, Skirgård H, Ritchie A, Cardillo M, Meakins F, Greenhill S, Hua X. Publisher Correction: Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6: 231. PMID 35115673 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01684-4  0.828
2021 Haynie HJ, Kavanagh PH, Jordan FM, Ember CR, Gray RD, Greenhill SJ, Kirby KR, Kushnick G, Low BS, Tuff T, Vilela B, Botero CA, Gavin MC. Pathways to social inequality. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 3: e35. PMID 37588531 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2021.32  0.716
2021 Bromham L, Dinnage R, Skirgård H, Ritchie A, Cardillo M, Meakins F, Greenhill S, Hua X. Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. PMID 34916621 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01604-y  0.827
2021 Greenhill SJ. Do languages and genes share cultural evolutionary history? Science Advances. 7: eabm2472. PMID 34613765 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abm2472  0.508
2021 Evans CL, Greenhill SJ, Watts J, List JM, Botero CA, Gray RD, Kirby KR. The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 376: 20200056. PMID 33993767 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0056  0.64
2021 Teixidor-Toneu I, Kool A, Greenhill SJ, Kjesrud K, Sandstedt JJ, Manzanilla V, Jordan FM. Historical, archaeological and linguistic evidence test the phylogenetic inference of Viking-Age plant use. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 376: 20200086. PMID 33993763 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0086  0.625
2020 Rzymski C, Tresoldi T, Greenhill SJ, Wu MS, Schweikhard NE, Koptjevskaja-Tamm M, Gast V, Bodt TA, Hantgan A, Kaiping GA, Chang S, Lai Y, Morozova N, Arjava H, Hübler N, et al. The Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications, reproducible analysis of cross-linguistic polysemies. Scientific Data. 7: 13. PMID 31932593 DOI: 10.1038/S41597-019-0341-X  0.704
2020 Roberts SG, Killin A, Deb A, Sheard C, Greenhill SJ, Sinnemäki K, Segovia-Martín J, Nölle J, Berdicevskis A, Humphreys-Balkwill A, Little H, Opie C, Jacques G, Bromham L, Tinits P, et al. CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database Journal of Language Evolution. 5: 101-120. DOI: 10.1093/Jole/Lzaa001  0.773
2019 Jackson JC, Watts J, Henry TR, List JM, Forkel R, Mucha PJ, Greenhill SJ, Gray RD, Lindquist KA. Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure. Science (New York, N.Y.). 366: 1517-1522. PMID 31857485 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Aaw8160  0.708
2019 Sagart L, Jacques G, Lai Y, Ryder RJ, Thouzeau V, Greenhill SJ, List JM. Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 31061123 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1817972116  0.63
2019 Hua X, Greenhill SJ, Cardillo M, Schneemann H, Bromham L. The ecological drivers of variation in global language diversity. Nature Communications. 10: 2047. PMID 31053716 DOI: 10.1038/S41467-019-09842-2  0.643
2019 Pacheco Coelho MT, Pereira EB, Haynie HJ, Rangel TF, Kavanagh P, Kirby KR, Greenhill SJ, Bowern C, Gray RD, Colwell RK, Evans N, Gavin MC. Drivers of geographical patterns of North American language diversity. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 286: 20190242. PMID 30914010 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2019.0242  0.846
2018 Forkel R, List JM, Greenhill SJ, Rzymski C, Bank S, Cysouw M, Hammarström H, Haspelmath M, Kaiping GA, Gray RD. Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, advancing data sharing and re-use in comparative linguistics. Scientific Data. 5: 180205. PMID 30325347 DOI: 10.1038/Sdata.2018.205  0.718
2018 Bromham L, Hua X, Cardillo M, Schneemann H, Greenhill SJ. Parasites and politics: why cross-cultural studies must control for relatedness, proximity and covariation. Royal Society Open Science. 5: 181100. PMID 30225088 DOI: 10.1098/Rsos.181100  0.414
2018 Greenhill SJ, Hua X, Welsh CF, Schneemann H, Bromham L. Population Size and the Rate of Language Evolution: A Test Across Indo-European, Austronesian, and Bantu Languages. Frontiers in Psychology. 9: 576. PMID 29755387 DOI: 10.3389/Fpsyg.2018.00576  0.624
2018 Kolipakam V, Jordan FM, Dunn M, Greenhill SJ, Bouckaert R, Gray RD, Verkerk A. A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family. Royal Society Open Science. 5: 171504. PMID 29657761 DOI: 10.1098/Rsos.171504  0.866
2018 List J, Greenhill SJ, Anderson C, Mayer T, Tresoldi T, Forkel R. CLICS2: An improved database of cross-linguistic colexifications assembling lexical data with the help of cross-linguistic data formats Linguistic Typology. 22: 277-306. DOI: 10.1515/Lingty-2018-0010  0.415
2018 List J, Walworth M, Greenhill SJ, Tresoldi T, Forkel R. Sequence comparison in computational historical linguistics Journal of Language Evolution. 3: 130-144. DOI: 10.1093/Jole/Lzy006  0.759
2018 Morin O, Winters J, Müller TF, Morisseau T, Etter C, Greenhill SJ. What smartphone apps may contribute to language evolution research Journal of Language Evolution. 3: 91-93. DOI: 10.1093/Jole/Lzy005  0.569
2018 Moravec JC, Atkinson Q, Bowern C, Greenhill SJ, Jordan FM, Ross RM, Gray R, Marsland S, Cox MP. Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution Evolution and Human Behavior. 39: 594-601. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2018.06.002  0.818
2017 Greenhill SJ, Wu CH, Hua X, Dunn M, Levinson SC, Gray RD. Evolutionary dynamics of language systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 114: E8822-E8829. PMID 29073028 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1700388114  0.8
2017 List JM, Greenhill SJ, Gray RD. The Potential of Automatic Word Comparison for Historical Linguistics. Plos One. 12: e0170046. PMID 28129337 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0170046  0.74
2016 Kirby KR, Gray RD, Greenhill SJ, Jordan FM, Gomes-Ng S, Bibiko HJ, Blasi DE, Botero CA, Bowern C, Ember CR, Leehr D, Low BS, McCarter J, Divale W, Gavin MC. D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity. Plos One. 11: e0158391. PMID 27391016 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0158391  0.786
2016 Atkinson QD, Coomber T, Passmore S, Greenhill SJ, Kushnick G. Cultural and Environmental Predictors of Pre-European Deforestation on Pacific Islands. Plos One. 11: e0156340. PMID 27232713 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0156340  0.748
2016 Greenhill SJ. Overview: Debating the effect of environment on language Journal of Language Evolution. 1: 30-32. DOI: 10.1093/Jole/Lzv007  0.51
2016 Birchall J, Dunn M, Greenhill SJ. A Combined Comparative and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Chapacuran Language Family International Journal of American Linguistics. 82: 255-284. DOI: 10.1086/687383  0.664
2015 Greenhill SJ. TransNewGuinea.org: An Online Database of New Guinea Languages. Plos One. 10: e0141563. PMID 26506615 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0141563  0.633
2015 Watts J, Sheehan O, Greenhill SJ, Gomes-Ng S, Atkinson QD, Bulbulia J, Gray RD. Pulotu: Database of Austronesian Supernatural Beliefs and Practices. Plos One. 10: e0136783. PMID 26398231 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0136783  0.805
2015 Cardillo M, Bromham L, Greenhill SJ. Links between language diversity and species richness can be confounded by spatial autocorrelation Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 282: 20142986. PMID 26019157 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2014.2986  0.626
2015 Watts J, Greenhill SJ, Atkinson QD, Currie TE, Bulbulia J, Gray RD. Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 282: 20142556. PMID 25740888 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2014.2556  0.791
2015 Bromham L, Hua X, Fitzpatrick TG, Greenhill SJ. Rate of language evolution is affected by population size. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112: 2097-102. PMID 25646448 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1419704112  0.601
2015 Bromham L, Hua X, Fitzpatrick TG, Greenhill SJ. Rate of language evolution is affected by population size Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112: 2097-2102. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1419704112  0.421
2014 Saslis-Lagoudakis CH, Hawkins JA, Greenhill SJ, Pendry CA, Watson MF, Tuladhar-Douglas W, Baral SR, Savolainen V. The evolution of traditional knowledge: environment shapes medicinal plant use in Nepal. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 281: 20132768. PMID 24523269 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2013.2768  0.35
2014 Koch H, Mailhammer R, Blust R, Bowern C, Daniels D, Francois A, Greenhill S, Joseph B, Reid L, Ross M, Sidwell P. Research priorities in historical-comparative linguistics: A view from Asia, Australia and the Pacific Diachronica. 31: 267-278. DOI: 10.1075/Dia.31.2.04Koc  0.366
2014 Greenhill SJ. Demographic correlates of language diversity The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics. 557-578.  0.528
2013 Ross RM, Greenhill SJ, Atkinson QD. Population structure and cultural geography of a folktale in Europe. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 280: 20123065. PMID 23390109 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2012.3065  0.752
2012 Bouckaert R, Lemey P, Dunn M, Greenhill SJ, Alekseyenko AV, Drummond AJ, Gray RD, Suchard MA, Atkinson QD. Mapping the origins and expansion of the Indo-European language family. Science (New York, N.Y.). 337: 957-60. PMID 22923579 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1219669  0.858
2012 Greenhill SJ, Gray RD. Basic vocabulary and Bayesian phylolinguistics: Issues of understanding and representation Diachronica. 29: 523-537. DOI: 10.1075/Dia.29.4.05Gre  0.714
2011 Dunn M, Greenhill SJ, Levinson SC, Gray RD. Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals. Nature. 473: 79-82. PMID 21490599 DOI: 10.1038/Nature09923  0.823
2011 Gray RD, Atkinson QD, Greenhill SJ. Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 366: 1090-100. PMID 21357231 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2010.0378  0.86
2011 Levinson SC, Greenhill SJ, Gray RD, Dunn M. Universal typological dependencies should be detectable in the history of language families Linguistic Typology. 15: 509-534. DOI: 10.1515/Lity.2011.034  0.772
2011 Greenhill SJ, Clark R. POLLEX-online: The Polynesian lexicon project online Oceanic Linguistics. 50: 551-559. DOI: 10.1353/Ol.2011.0014  0.492
2011 Greenhill SJ. Levenshtein distances fail to identify language relationships accurately Computational Linguistics. 37: 689-698. DOI: 10.1162/Coli_A_00073  0.616
2010 Gray RD, Bryant D, Greenhill SJ. On the shape and fabric of human history. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 365: 3923-33. PMID 21041216 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2010.0162  0.697
2010 Currie TE, Greenhill SJ, MacE R. Is horizontal transmission really a problem for phylogenetic comparative methods? A simulation study using continuous cultural traits Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 365: 3903-3912. PMID 21041214 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2010.0014  0.312
2010 Currie TE, Greenhill SJ, Gray RD, Hasegawa T, Mace R. Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific. Nature. 467: 801-4. PMID 20944739 DOI: 10.1038/Nature09461  0.647
2010 Greenhill SJ, Atkinson QD, Meade A, Gray RD. The shape and tempo of language evolution. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 277: 2443-50. PMID 20375050 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2010.0051  0.866
2010 Greenhill SJ, Drummond AJ, Gray RD. How accurate and robust are the phylogenetic estimates of Austronesian language relationships? Plos One. 5: e9573. PMID 20224774 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0009573  0.764
2009 Greenhill SJ, Currie TE, Gray RD. Does horizontal transmission invalidate cultural phylogenies? Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 276: 2299-306. PMID 19324763 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2008.1944  0.716
2009 Jordan FM, Gray RD, Greenhill SJ, Mace R. Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 276: 1957-64. PMID 19324748 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2009.0088  0.801
2009 Gray RD, Drummond AJ, Greenhill SJ. Language phylogenies reveal expansion pulses and pauses in Pacific settlement. Science (New York, N.Y.). 323: 479-83. PMID 19164742 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1166858  0.745
2008 Greenhill SJ, Blust R, Gray RD. The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: from bioinformatics to lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online. 4: 271-83. PMID 19204825 DOI: 10.4137/Ebo.S893  0.782
2008 Atkinson QD, Meade A, Venditti C, Greenhill SJ, Pagel M. Languages evolve in punctuational bursts. Science (New York, N.Y.). 319: 588. PMID 18239118 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1149683  0.857
2008 Greenhill SJ, Blust R, Gray RD. The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From bioinformatics to lexomics Evolutionary Bioinformatics. 2008: 271-283.  0.644
2007 Gray RD, Greenhill SJ, Ross RM. The Pleasures and Perils of Darwinizing Culture (with Phylogenies) Biological Theory. 2: 360-375. DOI: 10.1162/Biot.2007.2.4.360  0.667
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