Simon James Greenhill is a New Zealand scientist who works on the application of quantitative methods to the study of cultural evolution and human prehistory. He is well known for creating and building various linguistics databases, including the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database,[1][2] TransNewGuinea.org,[3] Pulotu,[4] and many others. In addition to Austronesian, he has contributed to the study of the phylogeny of many language families, including Dravidian[5] and Sino-Tibetan.[6]
Simon Greenhill | |
|---|---|
| Born | Simon James Greenhill |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Occupation | Scientist |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Auckland |
| Thesis | |
| Doctoral advisor | Russell Gray |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History; Australian National University |
| Main interests | Evolution, computational phylogenetics, quantitative comparative linguistics |
He is a graduate of University of Auckland, New Zealand.[7] The title of his 2008 doctoral thesis is The archives of history: a phylogenetic approach to the study of language.[8]
Greenhill is currently a scientist affiliated with the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.[9]
References
edit- ^ Greenhill SJ, Blust R, Gray RD (November 2008). "The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: from bioinformatics to lexomics". Evol Bioinform Online. 4: 271–83. doi:10.4137/ebo.s893. PMC 2614200. PMID 19204825.
- ^ R. D. Gray, A. J. Drummond, and S. J. Greenhill. Language Phylogenies Reveal Expansion Pulses and Pauses in Pacific Settlement. Science, 2009; 323 (5913): 479 doi:10.1126/science.1166858
- ^ Greenhill SJ. 2015. TransNewGuinea.org: An Online Database of New Guinea Languages. PLoS ONE 10(10): e0141563.
- ^ Watts J, Sheehan O, Greenhill SJ, Gomes-Ng S, Atkinson QD, Bulbulia J & Gray RD. 2015. Pulotu: Database of Austronesian Supernatural Beliefs and Practices. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0136783.
- ^ Vishnupriya Kolipakam, Fiona M. Jordan, Michael Dunn, Simon J. Greenhill, Remco Bouckaert, Russell Gray and Annemarie Verkerk (2018) A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family. ROyal Society Open Science, Volume 5, Issue 3, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171504
- ^ Sagart, Laurent; Jacques, Guillaume; Lai, Yunfan; Ryder, Robin J.; Thouzeau, Valentin; Greenhill, Simon J.; List, Johann-Mattis (May 2019). "Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (21): 10317–10322. doi:10.1073/pnas.1817972116. PMC 6534992. PMID 31061123.
- ^ Our research. Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database.
- ^ Greenhill, Simon (2008). The archives of history : a phylogenetic approach to the study of language (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/51143.
- ^ "Simon J. Greenhill's publications". Max Planck Institute.
External links
edit- Official website
- Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database
- Trans-New Guinea Online
- POLLEX: Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- Pulotu, Database of Pacific Religions
- Database of Places, Language, Culture and Environment (D-PLACE)
- Profiles
