Simon J. Greenhill

University of Auckland — New Zealand

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

50h-index10.6kcitations300works1.42yr avg
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Research Topics

Language and cultural evolution(126), Linguistic Variation and Morphology(82), Natural Language Processing Techniques(61), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(29), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation(19)

Publications293 total

Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2026Open Access
Demographic shifts, inter-group contact and environmental conditions drive language extinction and diversification
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2026Open Access
D-PLACE aggregated dataset
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2026Open Access
Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses
Nature Human Behaviour·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Phlorest phylogeny derived from Sagart et al. 2019 'Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan'
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2025Open Access
Phlorest phylogeny derived from Kolipakam et al. 2018 'A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family'
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2025Open Access
Phlorest phylogeny derived from Bouckaert et al. 2012 'Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family'
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2025Open Access
Phlorest phylogeny derived from Dunn et al. 2011 'Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals'
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2025Open Access
Phlorest phylogeny derived from Birchall et al. 2016 'A combined comparative and phylogenetic analysis of the Chapacuran language family'
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2025Open Access
Phlorest phylogeny derived from Greenhill 2015 'TransNewGuinea.org: An Online Database of New Guinea Languages'
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2025Open Access
Phlorest phylogeny derived from Gray et al. 2009 'Language phylogenies reveal expansion pulses and pauses in Pacific settlement'
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2025Open Access
CLDF dataset derived from Kitchen et al.'s "Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages" from 2009
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2025Open Access
A solid base for scaling up: the structure of numeration systems
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025Open Access
rcldf: Read Linguistic Data in the Cross Linguistic Data Format (CLDF)
2025
Different models, different assumptions, different findings: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo
Linguistic Typology·2025Open Access
Lexibank 2: pre-computed features for large-scale lexical data
Open Research Europe·2025Open Access
Pulotu: Database of Austronesian Religions
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2025Open Access
Diachrony and Diachronica
Diachronica·2025· 1 cited
Lexibank 2: pre-computed features for large-scale lexical data
Open Research Europe·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Lexibank Analysed
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Russell D. Gray(30), Quentin D. Atkinson(9), Johann‐Mattis List(9), Robert Forkel(6), Fiona M. Jordan(6), Lindell Bromham(6), Xia Hua(6), Remco Bouckaert(5), Michael Dunn(5), Joseph Watts(5), Robert M. Ross(5), Thomas E. Currie(4), Alexei J. Drummond(3), Kathryn R. Kirby(3), Damián E. Blasí(3), Claire Bowern(3), Ruth Mace(3), Marcel Cardillo(3), Hilde Schneemann(3), Christoph Rzymski(3)