Research

Publications last updated 02.05.2024.

Publications

  1. Pahker, Anna-Kati; Kanger, Laur; Tinits, Peeter (2024). Where is the deep sustainability turn most likely to emerge? An Industrial Modernity Index. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 201, 123227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123227
  2. Kanger, Laur; Tinits, Peeter; Pahker, Anna-Kati; Orru, Kati; Velmet, Aro; Sillak, Silver; Šeļa, Artjoms; Mertelsmann, Olaf; Tammiksaar, Erki; Vaik, Kristiina; Penna, Caetano C.R.; Tiwari, Amaresh Kumar; Lauk, Kalmer (2023). Long-term country-level evidence of major but uneven ruptures in the landscape of industrial modernity. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2023.100765
  3. Tinits, Peeter (2023). Stratified Historical Corpus of Estonian 1800-1940. Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu aastaraamat = Estonian papers in applied linguistics, 19, 175−194. https://doi.org/10.5128/ERYa19.11 PDF
  4. Kanger, Laur; Tinits, Peeter; Pahker, Anna-Kati; Orru, Kati; Tiwari, Amaresh Kumar; Sillak, Silver; Šeļa, Artjoms; Vaik, Kristiina (2022). Deep Transitions: Towards a comprehensive framework for mapping major continuities and ruptures in industrial modernity. Global Environmental Change, 72, 102447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102447
  5. Tinits, Peeter (2023). Finding environmental discourse in historical newspapers: a topic model workflow for query disambiguation. Digital Humanities in The Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 5, 344−354. https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.10663 PDF.
  6. Tinits, Peeter; Klavan, Jane; Lindström, Liina (2021). Digihumanitaaria Eestis. Keel ja Kirjandus, 64 (8-9), 667−677. DOI: 10.54013/kk764a1.
  7. Sobchuk, Oleg; Tinits, Peeter (2020). Cultural attraction in film evolution: The case of anachronies. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 20 (3-4), 218−237. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340082. PDF
  8. Tinits, Peeter; Sobchuk, Oleg (2020). Open-ended cumulative cultural evolution of Hollywood film crews. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1−16. DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2020.21. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.21 PDF
  9. Roberts, Seán G; Killin, Anton; Deb, Angarika; Sheard, Catherine; Greenhill, Simon J; Sinnemäki, Kaius; Segovia-Martín, José; Nölle, Jonas; Berdicevskis, Aleksandrs; Humphreys-Balkwill, Archie; Little, Hannah; Opie, Christopher; Jacques, Guillaume; Bromham, Lindell; Tinits, Peeter; Ross, Robert M; Lee, Sean; Gasser, Emily; Calladine, Jasmine; Spike, Matthew … (2020). CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database. Journal of Language Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzaa001
  10. Nölle, Jonas; Hartmann, Stefan; Tinits, Peeter (2020). Language evolution research in the year 2020: A survey of new directions. Language Dynamics and Change, 10 (1). https://doi.org/10.1163/22105832-bja10005. PDF
  11. Tinits, Peeter *; Nolle, Jonas *; Hartmann, Stefan * (2017). Usage context influences the evolution of overspecification in iterated learning. Journal of Language Evolution, 2 (2, 2), 148−159. * - Authors contributed equally https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzx011 PDF
  12. Kanatova, Maria *; Milyakina, Alexandra *; Pilipovec, Tatyana *; Shelya, Artjom *; Sobchuk, Oleg *; Tinits, Peeter * (2017). Broken Time, Continued Evolution: Anachronies in Contemporary Films. 14, 1−22. PDF * - Authors in alphabetical order.
  13. Tinits, P. 2014. Language stability and morphological complexity in situations of language contact. An experimental paradigm. Conference proceedings for the International Congress of Linguists 19. PDF

Thesis

  1. Tinits, Peeter. 2024. Cultural Evolution in Language and Art. Tallinn University Dissertations on Humanities. Tallinn: Tallinn University. PDF.
  1. Tinits, Peeter. 2023. Digital humanist answers: how many books have been published in Estonian? (Digihumanitaar vastab: kui palju on eesti keeles raamatuid ilmunud?) Novaator 23.11.2023 Link
  2. Tinits, Peeter. 2017. How to make an opera about science? (Kuidas teha ooperit teadusest?) A review of the opera „Der nordische Baer” by Dominy Clements. Teater. Muusika. Kino. May, 2017. Link
  3. Tinits, Peeter. 2015. Language interest: Estonia. In: Leerssen, Joep (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe (ERNiE). (electronic version; Amsterdam: Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms, www.romanticnationalism.net) Link
  4. Tinits, Peeter. 2014. Meaning and meaning fields: A non-dualist approach by Martin Staude. Review of Staude, Martin 2012. Meaning in Communication, Cognition, and Reality: Outline of a Theory from Semiotics, Philosophy, and Sociology. Sign Systems Studies, 42(1), 147 - 156. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.07