Alice Gaby
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alice Gaby is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2214-3157 | E‑ISSN 2214‑3165
Title
Reciprocals and Semantic Typology
Edited by Nicholas Evans, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid
Reciprocals are an increasingly hot topic in linguistic research. This reflects the intersection of several factors: the semantic and syntactic complexity of reciprocal constructions, their centrality to some key points of linguistic theorizing (such as Binding Conditions on anaphors within… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 98] 2011. viii, 349 pp.
2026 Chapter 3. Yesterday’s eve: Patterns of polysemy among the deictic temporals of Australian languages Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach, Brdar-Szabó, Rita and Mario Brdar (eds.), pp. 102–113 | Chapter
This chapter surveys the patterns of polysemy (or, ‘colexification’) exhibited by deictic temporal adverbs denoting ‘yesterday’, ‘today’ and ‘tomorrow’ in a sample of forty-five Australian Aboriginal languages. While some polysemic links are ubiquitous (such as the colexification of ‘today’ and… read more
2018 Pointing to the body: Kin signs in Australian Indigenous sign languages Gesture 17:1, pp. 1–36 | Article
Kinship plays a central role in organizing interaction and other social behaviors in Indigenous Australia. The spoken lexicon of kinship has been the target of extensive consideration by anthropologists and linguists alike. Less well explored, however, are the kin categories expressed through… read more
2016 Hyponymy and the structure of Kuuk Thaayorre kinship Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, Verstraete, Jean-Christophe and Diane Hafner (eds.), pp. 159–178 | Article
The Kuuk Thaayorre lexicon of kinship can be divided into four subsystems, each of which is hyponymically related to the others. At the finest level of granularity, the set of referential terms (e.g. kanam ‘[someone’s] elder brother’) distinguishes thirty-four classes of kin. These are hyponyms of… read more
2012 The Thaayorre lexicon of putting and taking Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective, Kopecka, Anetta and Bhuvana Narasimhan (eds.), pp. 233–252 | Article
This paper investigates the lexical semantics and relative distributions of verbs describing putting and taking events in Kuuk Thaayorre, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York (Australia). Thaayorre put/take verbs can be subcategorised according to whether they may combine with an NP encoding a… read more
2011 1. Introduction: Reciprocals and semantic typology Reciprocals and Semantic Typology, Evans, Nicholas, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid (eds.), pp. 1–28 | Article
Reciprocity lies at the heart of social cognition, and with it so does the encoding of reciprocity in language via reciprocal constructions. Despite the prominence of strong universal claims about the semantics of reciprocal constructions, there is considerable descriptive literature on the… read more
2011 15. Reciprocal-marked and marked reciprocal events in Kuuk Thaayorre Reciprocals and Semantic Typology, Evans, Nicholas, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid (eds.), pp. 251–264 | Article
Kuuk Thaayorre has a single dedicated reciprocal marker, the verbal suffix -rr. There are, however, a number of alternative strategies for encoding semantically reciprocal events. This chapter outlines the five constructions that may overtly signal reciprocity in an event and explores which… read more
2011 2. The semantics of reciprocal constructions across languages: An extensional approach Reciprocals and Semantic Typology, Evans, Nicholas, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid (eds.), pp. 29–60 | Article
How similar are reciprocal constructions in the semantic parameters they encode? We investigate this question by using an extensional approach, which examines similarity of meaning by examining how constructions are applied over a set of 64 videoclips depicting reciprocal events (Evans et al. 2004). read more
2008 Pragmatically case-marked: Non-syntactic functions of the Kuuk Thaayorre ergative suffix Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages, Mushin, Ilana and Brett Baker (eds.), pp. 111–134 | Article
In Kuuk Thaayorre, ergative marking is of both syntactic and pragmatic import. Syntactically, ergative inflection marks a noun phrase as the subject of a transitive clause. Though this may be considered definitional of an ergative morpheme, Kuuk Thaayorre joins a growing number of languages in… read more