Andrea Schalley

Username: Andrea Schalley

Participant details

	Network Member	Andrea Schalley
	Organisation/Institution	Griffith University
	Department/Centre	School of Languages and Linguistics
	Lab
	Website	http://www.griffith.edu.au/arts-languages-criminology/school-languages-linguistics/staff/dr-andrea-schalley
	Research area	Linguistics
	Research keywords	semantic modelling, ontolinguistics, discourse representation, linguistic variability

Research Interests

My research interests are in semantics, ontolinguistics, and the relationship between language and cognition. I developed a representational system for verbal semantics that draws heavily on the object-oriented Unified Modeling Language (UML), the de-facto standard for software design and analysis. I am currently looking at ways to extend my system - called Unified Eventity Representation (UER) - to address questions of compositional semantics and discourse representation. Another area of interest is ontolinguistics (ontology-based linguistics). In particular, I am developing an ontology of grammaticalised psychosocial categories and how they are grammaticalised across languages, as part of the ARC Discovery Project "Social cognition and language: the design resources of grammatical diversity".

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