Michael Dunn
Professor in General Linguistics at Department of Linguistics and Philology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 13 41
- E-mail:
- Michael.Dunn@lingfil.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 635
751 26 UPPSALA
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- ORCID:
- 0000-0001-5349-5252
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Short presentation
I have been Professor of General Linguistics at Uppsala University since 2014. My academic background is in language description, linguistic typology, and phylogenetics, and my current research focus is on the evolutionary dynamics of language change. My personal homepage has more information.
Publications
Recent publications
- Loanwords in Basic Vocabulary as an Indicator of Borrowing Profiles (2024)
- Evolution and Spread of Politeness Systems in Indo-European (2023)
- Two measures are better than one (2023)
- Improved distance measures for “mixed-content miscellanies" (2022)
- Uralic typology in the light of a new comprehensive dataset (2022)
All publications
Articles
- Loanwords in Basic Vocabulary as an Indicator of Borrowing Profiles (2024)
- Evolution and Spread of Politeness Systems in Indo-European (2023)
- Two measures are better than one (2023)
- Improved distance measures for “mixed-content miscellanies" (2022)
- Uralic typology in the light of a new comprehensive dataset (2022)
- The evolutionary trends of grammatical gender in Indo-Aryan languages (2021)
- From effluvia to chemicals (2021)
- Best practices in justifying calibrations for dating language families (2020)
- A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family (2018)
- Dative sickness (2017)
- Process-based modelling shows how climate and demography shape language diversity (2017)
- Evolutionary dynamics of language systems (2017)
- A combined comparative and phylogenetic analysis of the Chapacuran language family (2016)
- Ancient genomes link early farmers from Atapuerca in Spain to modern-day Basques (2015)
- Spatial relations in closely related languages (2015)
- Semantic systems in closely related languages (2015)
- Review of Evolutionary Linguistics by April McMahon and Robert McMahon (2014)
- Time and place in the prehistory of the Aslian languages (2013)
- Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Linguistic Diversity (2013)
- Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family (2012)
- Anthropological papers of the University of Alaska (2012)
- Assessing the lexical evidence for a Central Solomons Papuan family using the Oswalt Monte Carlo Test (2012)
- Systematic typological comparison as a tool for investigating language history (2012)
- Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals (2011)
- Universal typological dependencies should be detectable in the history of language families (2011)
- Kin Term Diversity Is the Result of Multilevel, Historical Processes (2010)
- Contact and phylogeny in Island Melanesia (2009)
- Explaining the Linguistic Diversity of Sahul Using Population Models (2009)
- Structural phylogeny in historical linguistics (2008)
- Genetic and Linguistic Coevolution in Northern Island Melanesia (2008)
- Statistical reasoning in the evaluation of typological diversity in Island Melanesia (2007)
- Four languages from the lower end of the typology of locative predication (2007)
- Is Kazukuru really non-Austronesian? (2007)
- Measuring the phylogenetic signal of grammatical gender in Indo-Aryan languages
Chapters
- Language phylogenies (2015)
- Gender determined dialect variation (2014)
- Gender determined dialect variation (2014)
- Language history and culture groups among Austroasiatic-speaking foragers of the Malay Peninsula (2011)
- The Spread of the Arawakan Languages (2011)
- Inferring Prehistory from Genetic, Linguistic, and Geographic Variation (2007)
- The Languages of Island Melanesia (2007)
