Simon Greenhill

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Associate Professor

University of Auckland
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Simon Greenhill is an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His research focuses on linguistic diversity, language evolution, and kinship terminology, with recent publications exploring topics such as the risks to Canada's Indigenous languages and the development of body-part terminology in Pano. He has contributed significantly to projects like Lexibank and Grambank, which emphasize the importance of genealogical constraints and the implications of language loss.

Recent Grants

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Cross-cultural Patterns in Theory of Mind: Using text analytics to identify structure and variation in mental state attributions in the Pacific

Open Date: 2020-01-01

Close Date: 2023-01-01

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ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language

Open Date: 2014-01-01

Close Date: 2020-12-31

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Testing the functional roles of religion in human society

Open Date: 2012-04-01

Close Date: 2014-12-01

Grant: Close

Discovering Trans-New Guinea: revealing the prehistory of New Guinea

Open Date: 2012-01-01

Close Date: 2014-12-31

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Collaborators (5)

Volker Gast

University of Jena

GERMANY
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Sam Passmore

The Australian National University

AUSTRALIA
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Chiara Barbieri

University of Zurich

SWITZERLAND
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Kentaro K Shimizu

University of Zurich

SWITZERLAND
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Johann-Mattis List

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University of Passau

GERMANY
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