Publications

Improved distance measures for ‘fixed-content miscellanies’: an adaptation for the collections of sayings of the desert fathers and mothers

Göransson, Elisabet, Luke Maurits, Britt Dahlman, Karine Åkerman Sarkisian, Samuel Rubenson, Michael Dunn (2022) Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. :.

Uralic typology in the light of a new comprehensive dataset

Norvik, Miina, Yingqi Jing, Michael Dunn, Robert Forkel, Terhi Honkola, Gerson Klumpp, Richard Kowalik, Helle Metslang, Karl Pajusalu, Minerva Piha, Eva Saar, Sirkka Saarinen, Outi Vesakoski (2022) Journal of Uralic Linguistics. 1, 1:4-42.

The evolutionary trends of grammatical gender in Indo-Aryan languages

Allassonnière-Tang, Marc, Michael Dunn (2020) Language Dynamics and Change. -1, aop:1-30.

Best practices in justifying calibrations for dating language families

Maurits, Luke, Mervi Heer, Terhi Honkola, Michael Dunn, Outi Vesakoski (2019) Journal of Language Evolution. :1-21.

Chukchi: Non-contrastive Spatial Demonstrative Usage

Dunn, Michael J. (2018) In: Stephen Levinson, Sarah Cutfield, Michael Dunn, Nick Enfield, Sergio Meira, David Wilkins (editors) Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Cambridge University Press. 303-317

A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family

Kolipakam, Vishnupriya, Fiona M. Jordan, Michael Dunn, Simon J. Greenhill, Remco Bouckaert, Russell D. Gray, Annemarie Verkerk (2018) Royal Society Open Science. 5, 3:171504.

Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Levinson, Stephen C., Sarah Cutfield, Michael Dunn, Nick J. Enfield, Sérgio Meira, David Wilkins (2018) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Dative sickness: A phylogenetic analysis of argument structure evolution in Germanic

Dunn, Michael, Tonya Kim Dewey, Carlee Arnett, Thórhallur Eythórsson, Jóhanna Barðdal (2017) Language. 93, 1:e1-e22.

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

Gavin, Michael C., Thiago F. Rangel, Claire Bowern, Robert K. Colwell, Kathryn R. Kirby, Carlos A. Botero, Michael Dunn, Robert R. Dunn, Joe McCarter, Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho, Russell D. Gray (2017) Global Ecology and Biogeography. 26, 5:584-591.

Evolutionary dynamics of language systems

Greenhill, Simon J., Chieh-Hsi Wu, Xia Hua, Michael Dunn, Stephen C. Levinson, Russell D. Gray (2017) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. :201700388.

Contact phenomena in Austronesian and Papuan languages

Reesink, Ger, Michael Dunn (2017) In: Bill Palmer (editor) Papuan Languages and Linguistics. Mouton de Gruyter. 919-965

A Combined Comparative and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Chapacuran Language Family

Birchall, Joshua, Michael Dunn, Simon J. Greenhill (2016) International Journal of American Linguistics. 82, 3:255-284.

Language phylogenies

Dunn, Michael (2015) In: Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans (editors) The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Routledge. 190-211

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

Günther, Torsten, Cristina Valdiosera, Helena Malmström, Irene Ureña, Ricardo Rodriguez-Varela, Óddny Osk Sverrisdóttir, Evangelia A. Daskalaki, Pontus Skoglund, Thijessen Naidoo, Emma M. Svensson, José María Bermúdez de Castro, Eudald Carbonell, Michael Dunn, Jan Storå, Eneko Iriarte, Juan Luis Arsuaga, José-Miguel Carretero, Anders Götherström, Mattias Jakobsson (2015) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112:11917-11922.

Semantic systems in closely related languages

Majid, Asifa, Fiona Jordan, Michael Dunn (2015) Language Sciences. 49:1-18.

Gender determined dialect variation

Dunn, Michael (2014) In: Greville G. Corbett (editor) The expression of gender. De Gruyter. 39–68

Evolutionary Linguistics by April McMahon and Robert McMahon [review]

Dunn, Michael (2014) American Anthropologist. 116:690–691.

Time and place in the prehistory of the Aslian languages

Dunn, Michael, Nicole Kruspe, Niclas Burenhult (2013) Human Biology. 85:383-400.

Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Linguistic Diversity

Gavin, Michael C., Carlos A. Botero, Claire Bowern, Robert K. Colwell, Michael Dunn, Robert R. Dunn, Russell D. Gray, Kathryn R. Kirby, Joe McCarter, Adam Powell, Thiago F. Rangel, John R. Stepp, Michelle Trautwein, Jennifer L. Verdolin, Gregor Yanega (2013) BioScience. 63:524-535.

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

Bouckaert, Remco, Philippe Lemey, Michael Dunn, Simon J. Greenhill, Alexander V. Alekseyenko, Alexei J. Drummond, Russell D. Gray, Marc A. Suchard, Quentin D. Atkinson (2012) Science. 337:957-960.

Anthropological papers of the University of Alaska: The Dene-Yeniseian connection [review]

Dunn, Michael (2012) Language. 88:429-432.

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

Dunn, Michael, Angela Terrill (2012) Diachronica. 29:1-27.

Systematic typological comparison as a tool for investigating language history

Reesink, Ger, Michael Dunn (2012) In: Nicholas Evans, Marian Klamer (editors) Melanesian Languages on the Edge of Asia: Challenges for the 21st Century. University of Hawai'i Press.

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

Burenhult, Niclas, Nicole Kruspe, Michael Dunn (2011) In: N. J. Enfield (editor) Dynamics of Human Diversity. Pacific Linguistics. 257-275

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

Daniëlsen, S., M. Dunn, P. C. Muysken (2011) In: A. Hornborg, J.D. Hill (editors) Ethnicity in ancient Amazonia: Reconstructing past identities from archaeology, linguistics, and ethnohistory. University of Colorado Press. 173--196

Aslian linguistic prehistory: A case study in computational phylogenetics

Dunn, Michael, Niclas Burenhult, Nicole Kruspe, Sylvia Tufvesson, Neele Becker (2011) Diachronica. 28:291-323.

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

Dunn, Michael, Simon J. Greenhill, Stephen C. Levinson, Russell D. Gray (2011) Nature. 473:79-82.

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

Levinson, Stephen C., Simon J. Greenhill, Russell D. Gray, Michael Dunn (2011) Linguistic Typology. 15:509-534.

Kin Term Diversity Is the Result of Multilevel, Historical Processes

Jordan, Fiona M., Michael Dunn (2010) Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 33:388.

Contact and phylogeny in Island Melanesia

Dunn, M. (2009) Lingua. 119:1664–1678.

Linguistics more robust than genetics [Letter to the editor]

Friedlaender, J., K. Hunley, M. Dunn, A. Terrill, E. Lindstr\öm, G. Reesink, F. Friedlaender (2009) Science. :.

Explaining the Linguistic Diversity of Sahul Using Population Models

Reesink, Ger, Ruth Singer, Michael Dunn (2009) PLoS Biology. 7:e1000241.

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

Dunn, M., S. C Levinson, E. Lindstr\öm, G. Reesink, A. Terrill (2008) Language. 84:710–759.

Genetic and Linguistic Coevolution in Northern Island Melanesia

Hunley, Keith, Michael Dunn, Eva Lindström, Ger Reesink, Angela Terrill, Meghan E. Healy, George Koki, Françoise R. Friedlaender, Jonathan S. Friedlaender (2008) PLoS Genetics. 4:.

Is Kazukuru really non-Austronesian?

Dunn, M., M. Ross (2007) Oceanic Linguistics. 46:210.

Statistical reasoning in the evaluation of typological diversity in Island Melanesia

Dunn, M., R. Foley, S. C Levinson, G. Reesink, A. Terrill (2007) Oceanic Linguistics. 46:388–403.

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

Dunn, Michael, Anna Margetts, Sergio Meira, Angela Terrill (2007) Linguistics. 45:873-892.

9. Inferring Prehistory from Genetic, Linguistic, and Geographic Variation

Hunley, Keith, Michael Dunn, Eva Lindström, Ger Reesink, Angela Terrill, Heather Norton, Laura Scheinfeldt, Françoise R. Friedlaender, D. Andrew Merriwether, George Koki, Jonathan S. Friedlaender (2007) In: Jonathan S. Friedlaender (editor) Population Genetics, Linguistics, and Culture History in the Southwest Pacific. Oxford University Press. 141-155

8. The Languages of Island Melanesia

Lindstrom, E., A. Terrill, G. Reesink, M. Dunn (2007) In: Jonathan S. Friedlaender (editor) Population Genetics, Linguistics, and Culture History in the Southwest Pacific. Oxford University Press. 118–141

M. Fortescue, Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan Dictionary. Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter, 2005. 3-11-01841706

Dunn, M. (2006) Anthropological Linguistics. :296-298.

Semantic transference: two case studies from the Solomon Islands

Terrill, Angela, Michael Dunn (2006) In: Claire Lefebre, Lydia White, Christine Jourdan (editors) L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues. John Benjamins.

Vernacular Literacy in the Touo Language of the Solomon Islands

Dunn, Michael (2005) Current Issues in Language Planning. 6:239-250.

Structural Phylogenetics and the Reconstruction of Ancient Language History

Dunn, Michael, Angela Terrill, Ger Reesink, Robert A. Foley, Stephen C. Levinson (2005) Science. 309:2072-2075.

Orthographic design in the Solomon Islands: The social, historical, and linguistic situation of Touo (Baniata)

Terrill, A., M. Dunn (2003) Written Language 38; Literacy. 6:177–192.

The East Papuan languages: A preliminary typological appraisal

Dunn, M., G. Reesink, A. Terrill (2002) Oceanic Linguistics. 41:28–62.

Planning for Failure: The Niche of Standard Chukchi.

Dunn, M. (2000) Current Issues in Language Planning. 1:389–99.

Chukchi Women's Language: A Historical-Comparative Perspective

Dunn, Michael (2000) Anthropological Linguistics. 42:305-328.

A Grammar of Chukchi

Dunn, Michael (1999) PhD Dissertation, Australian National University.