Biography

Alice Gaby is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Monash University, Australia. Her research interests lie in three intersecting domains: semantic and structural typology; the relationship between language, culture and cognition; and the documentation and analysis of understudied languages, especially Australian Aboriginal languages. Underlying this research program is the belief that linguistic analysis can be enriched by viewing grammatical structures as part of a larger communicative system, encompassing multiple languages, registers and modalities.

She is Vice-President of the Australian Linguistic Society, board member of Living Languages (formerly RNLD), Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Language and Culture, and Area Editor of Linguistics Vanguard. She has collaborated with speakers of Kuuk Thaayorre and other Paman languages spoken in and around the community of Pormpuraaw (Cape York Peninsula, Australia) since 2002, as well as supporting Indigenous language revitalization efforts in communities around Australia.