Publications of Simon J. Greenhill

Greenhill, S. J.; Gray, R. D.: Basic vocabulary and Bayesian phylolinguistics: issues of understanding and representation. Diachronica 29 (4), pp. 523 - 537 (2012)

Greenhill, S. J.: Levenshtein distances fail to identify language relationships accurately. Computational Linguistics 37 (4), pp. 689 - 698 (2011)

Greenhill, S. J.; Clark, R.: POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian lexicon project online. Oceanic Linguistics 50 (2), pp. 551 - 559 (2011)

Dunne, M.; Greenhill, S. J.; Levinson, S. C.; Gray, R. D.: Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals. Nature 473 (7345), pp. 79 - 82 (2011)

Gray, R. D.; Atkinson, Q. D.; Greenhill, S. J.: Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 366 (1567), pp. 1090 - 1100 (2011)

Levinson, S. C.; Greenhill, S. J.; Gray, R. D.; Dunn, M.: Universal typological dependencies should be detectable in the history of language families. Linguistic Typology 15, pp. 509 - 534 (2011)

Currie, T. E.; Greenhill, S. J.; 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 of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 365 (1559), pp. 3903 - 3912 (2010)

Gray, R. D.; Bryant, D.; Greenhill, S. J.: On the shape and fabric of human history. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 365 (1559), pp. 3923 - 3933 (2010)

Currie, T. E.; Greenhill, S. J.; Gray, R. D.; Hasegawa, T.; Mace, R.: Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific. Nature 467 (7317), pp. 801 - 804 (2010)

Greenhill, S. J.; Atkinson, Q. D.; Meade, A.; Gray, R. D.: The shape and tempo of language evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277 (1693), pp. 2443 - 2450 (2010)

Greenhill, S. J.; Drummond, A. J.; Gray, R. D.: How accurate and robust are the phylogenetic estimates of Austronesian language relationships? PLoS One 5 (3), e9573 (2010)

Greenhill, S. J.; Currie, T. E.; Gray, R. D.: Does horizontal transmission invalidate cultural phylogenies? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1665), pp. 2299 - 2306 (2009)

Jordan, F.; Gray, R. D.; Greenhill, S. J.; Mace, R.: Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1664), pp. 1957 - 1964 (2009)

Gray, R. D.; Drummond, A. J.; Greenhill, S. J.: Language phylogenies reveal expansion pulses and pauses in Pacific settlement. Science 323 (5913), pp. 479 - 483 (2009)

Greenhill, S. J.; Gray, R. D.: Darwin, language, and two great Pacific voyages. New Zealand Science Review 66 (3), pp. 97 - 101 (2009)

Atkinson, Q. D.; Meade, A.; Venditti, C.; Greenhill, S. J.; Pagel, M.: Languages evolve in punctuational bursts. Science Magazine 319 (5863), p. 588 - 588 (2008)

Greenhill, S. J.; Blust, R.; Gray, R. D.: The Austronesian basic vocabulary database: from bioinformatics to lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics 4, pp. 271 - 283 (2008)

Gray, R. D.; Greenhill, S. J.; Ross, R. M.: The pleasures and perils of Darwinizing culture (with phylogenies). Biological Theory 2 (4), pp. 360 - 375 (2007)

Greenhill, S. J.; Heggarty, P.; Gray, R. D.: Bayesian Phylolinguistic. In: The Handbook of Historical Linguistics [II], Vol. II, 11, pp. 226 - 253 (Eds. Janda, R. D.; Joseph, B. D.; Vance, B. S.). Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, New Jersey (2020)

Greenhill, S. J.: Evolution and Language: Phylogenetic Analyses. In: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), pp. 370 - 377 (Ed. Wright, J. D.). Elsevier, Amsterdam (2015)