Michael Dunn

Calendars for the People: Runestaves as Medieval/Early Modern Vernacular Science

Dunn, Michael; Vandewinkel, Sigi; Tresoldi, Tiago

Part of Technology and culture, 2025

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The Chukotko-Kamchatkan Languages

Dunn, Michael

Part of The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia, p. 633-667, Mouton de Gruyter, 2024

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Loanwords in Basic Vocabulary as an Indicator of Borrowing Profiles

de Heer, Mervi; Blokland, Rogier; Dunn, Michael; Vesakoski, Outi

Part of Journal of Language Contact, p. 54-103, 2024

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Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss

Skirgård, Hedvig; Haynie, Hannah J.; Blasi, Damián E.; Hammarström, Harald et al.

Part of Science Advances, p. 1-15, 2023

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Two measures are better than one: combining iconicity ratings and guessing experiments for a more nuanced picture of iconicity in the lexicon

McLean, Bonnie; Dunn, Michael; Dingemanse, Mark

Part of Language and Cognition, p. 716-739, 2023

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Calendars for the People: Runestaves as Medieval/Early Modern Vernacular Science

Dunn, Michael; Vandewinkel, Sigi; Tresoldi, Tiago

Part of Technology and culture, 2025

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Loanwords in Basic Vocabulary as an Indicator of Borrowing Profiles

de Heer, Mervi; Blokland, Rogier; Dunn, Michael; Vesakoski, Outi

Part of Journal of Language Contact, p. 54-103, 2024

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Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss

Skirgård, Hedvig; Haynie, Hannah J.; Blasi, Damián E.; Hammarström, Harald et al.

Part of Science Advances, p. 1-15, 2023

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Two measures are better than one: combining iconicity ratings and guessing experiments for a more nuanced picture of iconicity in the lexicon

McLean, Bonnie; Dunn, Michael; Dingemanse, Mark

Part of Language and Cognition, p. 716-739, 2023

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Evolution and Spread of Politeness Systems in Indo-European

Dunn, Michael; Bellamy, Kate

Part of Transactions of the Philological Society, p. 152-167, 2023

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Improved distance measures for “mixed-content miscellanies": an adaptation for the collections of sayings of the desert fathers and mothers

Göransson, Elisabet; Maurits, Luke; Dahlman, Britt; Åkerman Sarkisian, Karine et al.

Part of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, p. 127-150, 2022

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Uralic typology in the light of a new comprehensive dataset

Norvik, Miina; Jing, Yingqi; Dunn, Michael; Forkel, Robert et al.

Part of Journal of Uralic Linguistics, p. 4-42, 2022

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From effluvia to chemicals: techniques of self and somatic ethics in tropical health travel narratives

Dunn, Michael

Part of Studia Neophilologica, p. 155-172, 2021

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The evolutionary trends of grammatical gender in Indo-Aryan languages

Allassonniere-Tang, Marc; Dunn, Michael

Part of Language Dynamics and Change, p. 211-240, 2021

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Best practices in justifying calibrations for dating language families

Maurits, L.; de Heer, Mervi; Honkola, T.; Dunn, Michael et al.

Part of Journal of Language Evolution, p. 17-38, 2020

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A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family

Kolipakam, Vishnupriya; Jordan, Fiona M.; Dunn, Michael; Greenhill, Simon J. et al.

Part of Royal Society Open Science, 2018

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Dative sickness: Aphylogenetic analysis of argument structure evolution in Germanic

Dunn, Michael; Dewey, Tonya Kim; Arnett, Carlee; Eythorsson, Thorhallur et al.

Part of Language, 2017

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Evolutionary dynamics of language systems

Greenhill, Simon J.; Wu, Chieh-Hsi; Hua, Xia; Dunn, Michael et al.

Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017

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Process-based modelling shows how climate and demography shape language diversity

Gavin, Michael C.; Rangel, Thiago F.; Bowern, Claire; Colwell, Robert K. et al.

Part of Global Ecology and Biogeography, p. 584-591, 2017

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A combined comparative and phylogenetic analysis of the Chapacuran language family

Birchall, Joshua; Dunn, Michael; Greenhill, Simon

Part of International Journal of American Linguistics, p. 255-284, 2016

Semantic systems in closely related languages

Majid, Asifa; Jordan, Fiona; Dunn, Michael

Part of Language Sciences, p. 1-18, 2015

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Ancient genomes link early farmers from Atapuerca in Spain to modern-day Basques

Günther, Torsten; Valdiosera, Cristina; Malmström, Helena; Urena, Irene et al.

Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 11917-11922, 2015

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Spatial relations in closely related languages

Majid, Asifa; Dunn, Michael; Jordan, Fiona; Tufvesson, Sylvia et al.

Part of Cognitive Processing, 2015

Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Linguistic Diversity

Gavin, Michael C.; Botero, Carlos A.; Bowern, Claire; Colwell, Robert K. et al.

Part of BioScience, p. 524-535, 2013

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Time and place in the prehistory of the Aslian languages

Dunn, Michael; Kruspe, Nicole; Burenhult, Niclas

Part of Human Biology, p. 383-400, 2013

Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family

Bouckaert, Remco; Lemey, Philippe; Dunn, Michael; Greenhill, Simon J. et al.

Part of Science, p. 957-960, 2012

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Systematic typological comparison as a tool for investigating language history

Reesink, Ger; Dunn, Michael

Part of Language Documentation & Conservation, p. 34-71, 2012

Anthropological papers of the University of Alaska: The Dene-Yeniseian connection (review)

Dunn, Michael

Part of Language, p. 429-432, 2012

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Assessing the lexical evidence for a Central Solomons Papuan family using the Oswalt Monte Carlo Test

Dunn, Michael; Terrill, Angela

Part of Diachronica, p. 1-27, 2012

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Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals

Dunn, Michael; Greenhill, Simon J.; Levinson, Stephen C.; Gray, Russell D.

Part of Nature, p. 79-82, 2011

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Universal typological dependencies should be detectable in the history of language families

Levinson, Stephen C.; Greenhill, Simon J.; Gray, Russell D.; Dunn, Michael

Part of Linguistic typology, p. 509-534, 2011

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Kin Term Diversity Is the Result of Multilevel, Historical Processes

Jordan, Fiona M.; Dunn, Michael

Part of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2010

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Contact and phylogeny in Island Melanesia

Dunn, Michael

Part of Lingua, p. 1664-1678, 2009

Explaining the Linguistic Diversity of Sahul Using Population Models

Reesink, Ger; Singer, Ruth; Dunn, Michael

Part of PLoS biology, 2009

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Genetic and Linguistic Coevolution in Northern Island Melanesia

Hunley, Keith; Dunn, Michael; Lindström, Eva; Reesink, Ger et al.

Part of PLOS Genetics, 2008

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Structural phylogeny in historical linguistics: methodological explorations applied in Island Melanesia

Dunn, Michael; Levinson, S. C; Lindstr\textbackslashöm, E.; Reesink, G. et al.

Part of Language, p. 710-759, 2008

Is Kazukuru really non-Austronesian?

Dunn, Michael; Ross, M.

Part of Oceanic Linguistics, 2007

Statistical reasoning in the evaluation of typological diversity in Island Melanesia

Dunn, Michael; Foley, R.; Levinson, S. C; Reesink, G. et al.

Part of Oceanic Linguistics, p. 388-403, 2007

Four languages from the lower end of the typology of locative predication

Dunn, Michael; Margetts, Anna; Meira, Sergio; Terrill, Angela

Part of Linguistics, p. 873-892, 2007

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Measuring the phylogenetic signal of grammatical gender in Indo-Aryan languages

Tang, Marc; Dunn, Michael

Part of Language Dynamics and Change

The Chukotko-Kamchatkan Languages

Dunn, Michael

Part of The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia, p. 633-667, Mouton de Gruyter, 2024

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Language phylogenies

Dunn, Michael

Part of The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics, p. 190-211, Routledge, 2015

Gender determined dialect variation

Dunn, Michael

Part of The expression of gender, p. 39-68, Mouton de Gruyter, 2014

Gender determined dialect variation

Dunn, Michael

Part of The expression of gender, p. 39-68, Mouton de Gruyter, 2014

Language history and culture groups among Austroasiatic-speaking foragers of the Malay Peninsula

Burenhult, Niclas; Kruspe, Nicole; Dunn, Michael

Part of Dynamics of Human Diversity, p. 257-275, Pacific Linguistics, 2011

The Spread of the Arawakan Languages: A View from Structural Phylogenetics

Danielsen, S.; Dunn, Michael; Muysken, P. C. \textbar068033397

Part of Ethnicity in ancient Amazonia, p. 173-196, University of Colorado Press, 2011

The Languages of Island Melanesia

Lindström, E.; Terrill, A.; Reesink, G.; Dunn, Michael

Part of Genes, Language and Culture History in the Southwest Pacific, p. 118-141, Oxford University Press, 2007

Inferring Prehistory from Genetic, Linguistic, and Geographic Variation

Hunley, Keith; Dunn, Michael; Lindström, Eva; Reesink, Ger et al.

Part of Population Genetics, Linguistics, and Culture History in the Southwest Pacific, p. 141-155, Oxford University Press, 2007

Spatial semantics of the Modern Gutnish preposition bäi support bilingualism on medieval Gotland.

Jordan, Caspar; Dunn, Michael

Review of Evolutionary Linguistics by April McMahon and Robert McMahon

Dunn, Michael

Part of American Anthropologist, p. 690-691, 2014