Alice Gaby

Biography

Alice Gaby is Professor of Linguistics at Monash University and Australian Research Council Industry Fellow at Living Languages. She is an Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Language and Culture and the Australian Journal of Linguistics, and Area Editor of Linguistics Vanguard. Alice is a non-Indigenous linguist who has collaborated with speakers of Kuuk Thaayorre (Pormpuraaw, Queensland) and other Paman languages since 2002, and has supported language reclamation efforts in communities around Australia. Her research interests include: the relationship between language, culture and cognition; grammatical description; semantic and structural typology; and language reclamation and revitalisation. Her analysis of grammatical structures proceeds from the understanding that they are embedded within a larger communicative system, encompassing multiple languages, registers and modalities. She is an Editorial Board member of the and International Journal of Language and Culture and the Australian Journal of Linguistics, and Area Editor of Linguistics Vanguard.