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Simon J. Greenhill

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71

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9.9K

Citations

47

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2005

Active since

Affiliations

University of Auckland(Current)

Australian National University

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Yale University

Simon J. Greenhill is an author at University of Auckland specializing in language studies, linguistics, and evolutionary biology.

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LanguageLinguisticsEvolutionary BiologyPhylogeneticsNatural SciencesCorpus LinguisticsAnthropologyHistorical LinguisticsLanguage DocumentationComputational Linguistics

Publications per year

2005–2024

71

Publications

71

Language Phylogenies Reveal Expansion Pulses and Pauses in Pacific Settlement

Russell D. Gray, Alexei J. Drummond, Simon J. Greenhill · Science · 2009 · 875 citations

Language Contact, Pacific Settlement, Language Evolution +23

Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family

Remco Bouckaert, Philippe Lemey, Michael Dunn et al. · Science · 2012 · 799 citations · Full text

Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals

Michael Dunn, Simon J. Greenhill, Stephen C. Levinson et al. · Nature · 2011 · 535 citations · Full text

Syntax, Language Evolution, Language Symbiosis +10

Does horizontal transmission invalidate cultural phylogenies?

Simon J. Greenhill, Thomas E. Currie, Russell D. Gray · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2009 · 436 citations · Full text

Phylogenetics, Molecular Ecology, Natural Sciences +11

Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure

Joshua Conrad Jackson, Joseph Watts, Teague R. Henry et al. · Science · 2019 · 411 citations · Full text

Neurolinguistics, Affective Neuroscience, Psycholinguistics +18

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