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Colloquia and invited talks:

2008. “Time flies (west) when you’re speaking Kuuk Thaayorre: the relationship between space and time in an Australian language”. April 25^th. Fresno: California State University, Fresno.

2008. “Does the language you speak shape the way you see the world?” Bright Horizons. January 27^th – February 3^rd. Western Caribbean: Scientific American and Insight Cruises (co-produced).

2008. “Heartbreak in a hundred languages: how we conceive of abstract concepts through our bodies” Bright Horizons. January 27^th – February 3^rd. Western Caribbean: Scientific American and Insight Cruises (co-produced).

2007. “When is West? Complex space/time interactions in Kuuk Thaayorre language and thought”. Sixth Annual SLUgS Symposium. Berkeley: UC Berkeley.

2007. “When reciprocity goes without saying: Event typicality and reciprocal coding in Kuuk Thaayorre”. Construction of Meaning Workshop, 20^th January. Palo Alto: Stanford University.

2006. “Pragmatic functions of Thaayorre ergative morphology”. 5^th July. Melbourne: Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, Latrobe University.

2006. “How the Thaayorre reflexive and reciprocal came to encode each other as well as themselves: A story of bidirectional semantic extension". 13^th February. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley.

2005. “Why Thaayorre reflexives and reciprocals seem to encode each other as well as themselves”. 26^th July. Melbourne: Monash University.

2005. “The diachrony of Thaayorre ergative morphology”. 6^th May. Aarhus: Aarhus University.

2004. “Demonstration of video elicitation clips for Reciprocals Project, Elicitation Protocol” (Evans, Nicholas and Alice Gaby). Reciprocity and reflexivity - description, typology and theory, October 1^st-2^nd. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.

2004. “Distinguishing reciprocals from reflexives in Kuuk Thaayorre”. Reciprocity and reflexivity - description, typology and theory, October 1^st-2^nd. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.

2004. “Digital media in the aboriginal classroom” (Alice Gaby and Daniel Hirst). Lab3000: Innovations in Digital Design, RMIT University, 28^th April.

2003. “Characterising the reciprocal domain: how the analyses of reciprocal relations and reciprocal constructions refine each other”. Trans seminar on syntax and semantics, October 22^nd. Utrecht: University of Utrecht.

Conference papers:

2006. “Functions of demonstratives in Thaayorre discourse”. 23^rd April, Second European Workshop on Australian Languages. Somlószőllős, Hungary.

2006. “Reciprocal-marked and marked reciprocal events in Kuuk Thaayorre”. Reciprocals Across Languages Workshop, 19^th April. Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

2005. “Relatively absolute gestures in Kuuk Thaayorre (and what they reveal about spatial cognition)”. Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference, September 27^th - 30^th. Melbourne: Monash University.

2005. “Life on the edge: there’s morphology there after all” (Anderson, Stephen, Lea Brown, Alice Gaby and Jacqueline Lecarme). Fifth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting. September 15-17^th. Villa Clythia: Fréjus.

2005. “Nominal coordination in Kuuk Thaayorre”. 4^th Blackwood Workshop on Australian Aboriginal Languages. 20^th March. Pearl Beach: University of Sydney.

2004. “Pragmatically case-marked: the interaction between syntax and context in determining Thaayorre case-marking”. School of Languages Postgraduate Conference, November 14-15^th. University of Melbourne: Melbourne.

2004. “Levels of involvement: Representing coparticipation in Thaayorre argument structure”. Blackwood Workshop on Australian Aboriginal Languages, March 12^th-14^th. Melbourne: University of Melbourne.

2004. “Distance and (in)accessibility in Thaayorre demonstrative ‘fillers’”. Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference, July 12-14^th. Sydney: University of Sydney.

2004. “The body familiar: categorising kin relations in Thaayorre oral and manual registers”. International Language and Cognition Conference, 10-12^th September. Coffs Harbour: University of New England.

2003. “An embodied perspective on Kuuk Thaayorre”. Poster presented at: Tutorials in Brain and Behavioural Science, The Visible Mind: Recording Cognitive Functions, 21^st-27^th July. Grimma: Kloster Nimbschen.

2003. “Compromizing transitivity: the problem of reciprocals” (Nicholas Evans, Alice Gaby and Rachel Nordlinger). Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference, 27^th September. Newcastle: University of Newcastle.

2003. “The transitivity of 3-place reflexoids”. Fourth International Workshop on Australian Linguistics, 24-25^th June. Aarhus: University of Aarhus.

2003. “Case and case-marking in Kuuk Thaayorre”. Pionier Workshop: Case, Valency & Transitivity, June 17th. Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen: Nijmegen.

Media

2008. “You Say Potato, I Say Cassava: Language, Culture and Perception”. Science Talk, February 6^th. Scientific American podcast (www.sciam.com).

2005. “Gut feelings”. Lingua Franca, December 17^th. Radio National 621AM.

Other

2007. “Inclusory constructions” Syntax and Semantics Circle, November 9^th. Berkeley: UC Berkeley.

2007. “Pragmatic functions of Thaayorre ergative morphology”. Syntax and Semantics Circle, 9^th March. Berkeley: UC Berkeley.