Publications

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Gaby, Alice. In press. The life cycle of the Kuuk Thaayorre desiderative. In Alan Yu & Darya Davitskaya (eds.), Life Cycle of Language: Past, Present, and Future. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gaby, Alice. 2023. Reflexive constructions in Kuuk Thaayorre. In Katarzyna Janic, Nicoletta Puddu & Martin Haspelmath (eds.), Reflexive constructions (Studies in Diversity Linguistics). Berlin: Language Science Press.

Marmion, Doug, Alexandra Andriolo, Kylie Simpson, Emma Murphy, Amy Parncutt & Alice Gaby. In press. Paper and Talk: the Australian Breath of Life Pilot Project. Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages. University of Sydney.

Gaby, Alice. 2023. Reflexives and reciprocals. In Claire Bowern (ed.), The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 360-377.

Gaby, Alice & Oliver Shoulson. 2023. Pronouns. In Claire Bowern (ed.), The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 268-277.

Bradley, John & Alice Gaby. 2023. Gender-based language differences. In Claire Bowern (ed.), The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 628-636.

Gaby, A. 2022. Comment on Ian Keen - The Evolution of Australian Kin Terminologies: Models, Conditions, and Consequences. Current Anthropology 63(1). Pp. 52-53. https://doi.org/10.1086/719365

Gaby, Alice, Bill Palmer, Jonathon Lum & Jonathan Schlossberg (eds). 2022. Sociotopography. Special collection of Linguistics Vanguard 8(s1). Pp. i-203. 

Hoffmann, D., Palmer, B. & A. Gaby. 2022. Geocentric directional systems in Australia: A typology. Linguistics Vanguard 8(s1). Pp. 67-89. (Supplementary materials available here)

Bohnemeyer, J., Alshehri, A., Blythe, J., Cerqueglini, L., Danziger, E., Donelson, K., Eggleston, A., Gaby, A., Lin, Y.-T., Lum, J., Moore, R., Nikitina, T. & Stoakes, H. 2022. Reference frames in language and cognition: Cross-population mismatches. Linguistics Vanguard 8(s1). Pp. 175-189. (Supplementary materials available here)

Lum, Jonathon, Bill Palmer, Jonathan Schlossberg & Alice Gaby. 2022. Diversity in representing space within and between language communities. Linguistics Vanguard 8(s1). Pp. 1-10.

Rajeg, Gede Primahadi Wijaya, Poppy Siahaan & Alice Gaby. 2022. The Spatial Construal of TIME in Indonesian: Evidence from Language and Gesture. Linguistik Indonesia 40(1). 1–24.

Palmer, B., D. Hoffmann, J. Blythe, A. Gaby, B. Pascoe & M. Ponsonnet. 2021. Frames of spatial reference in five Australian languages. Spatial Cognition and Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Special Issue: Speaking of Location: Understanding, Interpreting and Generating Natural Language Descriptions of Space).

Gaby, Alice. & Lesley. Woods. 2020. Towards linguistic justice for Indigenous people: a response to Charity Hudley, Mallinson and Bucholz. Language, 96(4), pp. e268-e280. 

Couzens, Vicki, Alice Gaby & Tonya Stebbins. 2020. Standardise this! Prescriptivism and resistance to standardization in language revitalization. In Keith Allan (ed.), Dynamic Language Changes: Looking Within and Across Languages. New York: Springer Nature, pp. 37-55.

Gaby, Alice & John Bradley. 2019. Wulaya ‘head’ in Yanyuwa. In Iwona Kraska-Szlenk (ed.), Embodiment in cross-linguistic studies: the “head” (Brill’s Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture), 263–272. Leiden / Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004392410_015.

Palmer, Bill, Joe Blythe, Alice Gaby, Dorothea Hoffmann & Maïa Ponsonnet. 2019. Geospatial Natural Language in Indigenous Australia: Research Priorities. In Kristin Stock, Christopher Jones & Thora Tenbrink (eds.), Speaking of Location 2019, 11. Regensburg, Germany: CEUR-WS.org. 

Kemp, C., A. Gaby & T. Regier. 2019. Season naming and the local environment. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Green, J., A. Bauer, A. Gaby & E. Ellis. 2018. Pointing to the body: kin signs in Australian Indigenous sign languages. Gesture 17(1), pp. 1-36. 

Palmer, W., A. Gaby, J. Lum & J. Schlossberg. 2018. Diversity in spatial language within communities: the interplay of culture, language and landscape in representations of space. In Stephan Winter, Amy Griffin, and Monika Sester (eds) Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018). LIPIcs–Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Vol. 114. Dagstuhl Publishing. ISBN 978-3-95977-083-5. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.53.

Gaby, Alice & Tyson Yunkaporta. 2018. Explainer: the seasonal “calendars” of Indigenous Australia. The Conversation. (16 January, 2018). 

Gaby, A. 2017. A Grammar of Kuuk Thaayorre. (Mouton Grammar Library, 74). Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. (Email Alice.Gaby@monash.edu if you do not have access to a copy)

Palmer, W., Lum, J., Schlossberg, J. & Gaby, A. 2017. How does the environment shape spatial language? Evidence for Sociotopography. Linguistic Typology, vol. 21(3).

Gaby, A. 2017. Kinship semantics: culture in the lexicon. In Sharifian, F. (Ed.) Advances in Cultural Linguistics. New York/London/Singapore: Springer.

Palmer, W., A. Gaby, J. Lum & J. Schlossberg. 2017. Socioculturally Mediated Responses to Environment Shaping Universals and Diversity in Spatial Language. In P. Fogliaroni, A. Ballatore & E. Clementini (eds.), Proceedings of Workshops and Posters at the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2017), 195–205. (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography). Cham: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63946-8_35. 

Gaby, A. & E. Sweetser. 2017. Space-time mappings beyond language. In B. Dancygier (ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 635-650.

Sweetser, E. & Gaby, A. 2017. Linguistic patterns of space and time vocabulary. In B. Dancygier (ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 625-634.

Gaby, Alice, Jonathon Lum, Thomas Poulton & Jonathan Schlossberg. 2017. What in the world is North? Translating cardinal directions across languages, cultures and environments. M/C Journal. (Special Issue: North).

Gaby, A. 2016. Hyponymy and the structure of Kuuk Thaayorre kinship. In Jean-Christophe Verstraete & Diane Hafner (eds) Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country. (Studies in Anthropological Linguistics). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 159-178.

Gaby, A., Inkelas, S. 2014. Reduplication in Kuuk Thaayorre. In Kager, René. Janet Grijzenhout & Koen Sebregts (eds). Where the Principles Fail: A festschrift for Wim Zonneveld on the occasion of his 64th birthday. Ridderkerk: Holland Ridderkerk. Pp. 41-52.

Gaby, A., Singer, R. 2014. Semantics of Australian languages. In Koch, H. & Nordlinger, R. (Eds). The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: a comprehensive guide. (World of Languages 3). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 295-327.

Majid, A., Gaby, A., Boroditsky, L., 2013, Time in terms of space, Frontiers in Psychology, vol 4, 554. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00554.

Gaby, A., 2012, The Thaayorre think of time like they talk of space, Frontiers in Psychology, vol 3, Frontiers Research Foundation, Switzerland, pp. 1-8. 

Gaby, A., 2012, The Thaayorre lexicon of putting and taking. in Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective, eds Anetta Kopecka and Bhuvana Narasimhan, John Benjamins, Amsterdam The Netherlands, pp. 233–252.

Evans, N., Gaby, A., Levinson, S., Majid, A. (Eds), 2011, Reciprocals and Semantic Typology, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Majid, A., Evans, N., Gaby, A., Levinson, S., 2011, The grammar of exchange: a comparative study of reciprocal constructions across languages, Frontiers in Psychology, vol 2, Frontiers Research Foundation, Switzerland, pp. 1-15. 

Evans, N., Levinson, S., Gaby, A., Majid, A., 2011, Introduction: Reciprocals and semantic typology, in Reciprocals and Semantic Typology, eds Nicholas Evans, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid, John Benjamins, Amsterdam The Netherlands, pp. 1-28.

Gaby, A., 2011, Reciprocal-marked and marked reciprocal events in Kuuk Thaayorre, in Reciprocals and Semantic Typology, eds Nicholas Evans, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid, John Benjamins, Amsterdam The Netherlands, pp. 251-264.

Majid, A., Evans, N., Gaby, A., Levinson, S., 2011, The semantics of reciprocal constructions across language: An extension approach, in Reciprocals and Semantic Typology, eds Nicholas Evans, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid, John Benjamins, Amsterdam The Netherlands, pp. 29-60.

Boroditsky, L., Gaby, A., 2010, Remembrances of times east: absolute spatial representations of time in an Australian Aboriginal community, Psychological Science, vol 21, issue 11, pp. 1635-1639. 

Gaby, A., 2010, From discourse to syntax and back: the lifecycle of Kuuk Thaayorre ergative morphology, Lingua , vol 120, Elsevier BV, Netherlands, pp. 1677-1692. 

Gaby, A., 2009, Teaching & learning guide for: rebuilding Australia’s linguistic profile – recent developments in research on Australian Aboriginal languages, Language and Linguistics Compass, vol 3, issue 5, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., UK, pp. 1366-1373. 

Gaby, A., 2008, Rebuilding Australia’s linguistic profile: Recent developments in research on Australian aboriginal languages, Language and Linguistics Compass, vol 2, issue 1, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., UK, pp. 211-233. 

Gaby, A., 2008, Distinguishing reciprocals from reflexives in Kuuk Thaayorre, in Reciprocals and Reflexives: Theoretical and Typological Explorations, eds Ekkehard Konig and Volker Gast, De Gruyter Mouton, Germany, pp. 259-288.

Gaby, A., 2008, Gut feelings: locating emotion, life force and intellect in the Thaayorre body, in Body, Culture and Language: Conceptualizations of Internal Body Organs Across Cultures and Languages, eds Farzad Sharifian, Rene Dirven, Ning Yu and Susanne Niemeier, De Gruyter Mouton, Germany, pp. 27-44.

Gaby, A., 2008, Pragmatically case-marked: non-syntactic functions of the Thaayorre ergative suffix, in Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages, eds Ilana Mushin and Brett Baker, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 111-134.

Gaby, A., 2007, Describing cutting and breaking events in Kuuk Thaayorre, Cognitive Linguistics, vol 18, issue 2, Mouton de Gruyter, Germany, pp. 263-272. 

Evans, N., Gaby, A., Nordlinger, R., 2007, Valency mismatches and the coding of reciprocity in Australian languages, Linguistic Typology, vol 11, Mouton de Gruyter, Germany, pp. 541-597. 

Boroditsky, L., Gaby, A., & Levinson, S. C. 2008. Time in space. In A. Majid (Ed.), Field manual volume 10 (pp. 59-80). Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

Boroditsky, L. & Gaby, A. 2006. East of Tuesday: Representing time in absolute space. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada.

Anderson, S.R., Brown, L., Gaby, A., Lecarme, J., 2006, Life on the edge: there’s morphology there after all!, Lingue e linguaggio, vol 1, Societa Editrice Il Mulino, Italy, pp. 33-48. 

Gaby, A., 2006, The Thaayorre ‘true man’: lexicon of the human body in an Australian language, Language Sciences, vol 28, Elsevier, Netherlands, pp. 201-220. 

Gaby, A., 2005, Some participants are more equal than others: case and the composition of arguments in Kuuk Thaayorre, in Competition and Variation in Natural Languages: The Case for Case, eds Mengistu Amberber and Helen deHoop, Elsevier, Netherlands, pp. 9-39.

Evans, N., Levinson, S. C., Enfield, N. J., Gaby, A., & Majid, A. 2004. Reciprocal constructions and situation type. In A. Majid (Ed.), Field Manual Volume 9 (pp. 25-30). Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. doi:10.17617/2.506955.

Hirst, D. & A. Gaby. 2005. Kugu Muminh. Language learning CD-ROM. Pormpuraaw: Pormpuraaw Community Council. 

Hirst, D. & A. Gaby. 2005. Kugu Mu’inh. Language learning CD-ROM. Pormpuraaw: Pormpuraaw Community Council. 

Hirst, D. & A. Gaby. 2004. Ngay Kuuk Thaayorre Yiik. Language learning CD-Rom. Pormpuraaw: Pormpuraaw Community Council.

Gaby, A., & Faller, M. 2003. Reciprocity questionnaire. In N. J. Enfield (Ed.), Field research manual 2003, part I: Multimodal interaction, space, event representation (pp. 77-80). Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. doi:10.17617/2.877641.

Charlie, A., C. Holroyd, G. Jack, D. Ned, J. Ned, C. William, D. William, A. Gaby & D. Hirst. 2003. Wuuch / Wanum: Songs of Pormpuraaw. Audio CD. Pormpuraaw: Pormpuraaw Community Council.