Peeter Tinits

Peeter Tinits

data, history, science and humanities

Research

I am a PhD student in linguistics, interested in cultural evolution, historical sociolinguistics and empirical methods in humanities. My core research interest is in how social learning between individuals can influence patterns on population levels. I have used various historical datasets to study this process, and am interested in more data.

My PhD project at Tallinn University is on the standardization of written Estonian in the late 19th century. I have studied the evolution of films, knowledge systems, literature through various corpora. I have worked on incorporating natural scientific expertise in humanities questions (e.g. through digital humanities, or experimental semiotics).

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

Varia

  1. Tinits, P. 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
  2. Tinits, P. 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, P. 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