Cite us as:

Hyejin Youn, Logan Sutton, Eric Smith, Cristopher Moore, Jon F. Wilkins, Ian Maddieson, William Croft, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, On the universal structure of human lexical semantics, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA doi: 10.1073/pnas.1520752113 [link]

Who We Are:

- Hyejin Youn:
  Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, Oxford, OX2 6ED, UK.
  Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX2 6GG, UK.
  Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA.
- Logan Sutton:
  Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
- Eric Smith,
  Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA.
- Cristopher Moore,
  Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA.
- Jon F. Wilkins:
  Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA.
  Ronin Institute, Montclair, NJ 07043, USA,
- Ian Maddieson:
  Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA,
- William Croft:
  Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA,
- Tanmoy Bhattacharya:
  Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA.
  MS B285, Grp T-2, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.

Acknowledgements

DATA are credited to UNM colleague, Croft, Sutton, Maddieson, and students. HY acknowledges the support of research grants from the National Science Foundation (no. SMA-1312294). WC and LS acknowledge support from the University of New Mexico Resource Allocation Committee. TB, JW, ES, CM, and HY acknowledge the Santa Fe Institute, and the Evolution of Human Languages program. Authors thank Joonbok Lee for help of visualization.

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