Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Distinguished Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995) and Warekena (1998), plus A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge University Press, 2003), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American languages. Her other major publications, with OUP, include Classifiers: A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000), Language Contact in Amazonia (2002), Evidentiality (2004), The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea, (2008), Imperatives and Commands (2010), Languages of the Amazon (2012; paperback 2015), and The Art of Grammar (2014).

R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidin), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (Oxford University Press, 2004;, paperback 2011) and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is also the author of the three volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (Oxford University Press, 2010-12), Making New Words (OUP, 2014), and Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders (OUP, 2015).

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University
Jules Jacques Coly, University of Cologne
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, University of Cologne
R. M. W. Dixon, Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University
Diana Forker, University of Bamberg
Teija Greed, University of Helsinki
Gwendolyn Hyslop, Australian National University
Elena Mihas, Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University
Simon E. Overall, Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University
Chia-jung Pan, Academia Sinica
Olga Seesing, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Elena Skribnik, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Anne Storch, University of Cologne
Borut Telban, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Sihong Zhang, Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University.