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,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 TransNewGuinea.org,Greenhill SJ. 2015. TransNewGuinea.org: An Online Database of New Guinea Languages. PLoS ONE 10(10): e0141563. Pulotu,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. and many others. In addition to Austronesian, he has contributed to the study of the phylogeny of many language families, including DravidianVishnupriya 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 and Sino-Tibetan.
He is a graduate of University of Auckland, New Zealand.Our research. Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database. The title of his 2008 doctoral thesis is The archives of history: a phylogenetic approach to the study of language.
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.
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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)
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