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]
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]
^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
^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.
