Publications of Simon J. Greenhill
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Journal Article (58)
2018
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9, 576 (2018)
Population size and the rate of language evolution: A test across Indo-European, Austronesian, and Bantu languages. Frontiers in Psychology
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5 (3), 171504 (2018)
A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family. Royal Society Open Science
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22 (2), pp. 277 - 306 (2018)
CLICS2: An improved database of cross-linguistic colexifications assembling lexical data with the help of cross-linguistic data formats. Linguistic Typology 2017
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114 (42), pp. E8822 - E8829 (2017)
Evolutionary dynamics of language systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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The Potential of automatic word comparison for historical linguistics. PLoS One, 0170046 (2017)
2016
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11 (7), e0158391 (2016)
D-PLACE: A global database of cultural, linguistic and environmental diversity. PLoS One
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82 (3), pp. 255 - 284 (2016)
A combined comparative and phylogenetic analysis of the Chapacuran language family. International Journal of American Linguistics
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11 (5), e0156340 (2016)
Cultural and environmental predictors of pre-european deforestation on Pacific Islands. PLoS One
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1 (1), pp. 30 - 32 (2016)
Overview: Debating the effect of environment on language. Journal of Language Evolution 2015
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10, e0141563 (2015)
TransNewGuinea.org: An online database of New Guinea languages. PLoS One
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10 (9), e0136783 (2015)
Pulotu: Database of Austronesian supernatural beliefs and practices. PLoS One
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112 (7), pp. 2097 - 2102 (2015)
Rate of language evolution is affected by population size. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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282 (1809), 20142986 (2015)
Links between language diversity and species richness can be confounded by spatial autocorrelation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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282 (1804), 20142556 (2015)
Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2014
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281 (1780), 20132768 (2014)
The evolution of traditional knowledge: environment shapes medicinal plant use in Nepal. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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31 (2), pp. 267 - 278 (2014)
Research priorities in historical-comparative linguistics A view from Asia, Australia and the Pacific. Diachronica 2013
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280 (1756), 20123065 (2013)
Population structure and cultural geography of a folktale in Europe. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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4 (1), pp. 128 - 133 (2013)
First shots fired for the phylogenetic revolution in religious studies (Human cultures are primarily adaptive at the group level). Cliodynamics: the journal of theoretical and mathematical history
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42, pp. 1 - 11 (2013)
A lexicostatistical study of the Khasian Languages: Khasi, Pnar, Lyngngam, and War. Mon-Khmer Studies 2012
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337 (6097), pp. 957 - 960 (2012)
Mapping the origins and expansion of the Indo-European language family. Science