Edited by Rainer Vossen, Professor Emeritus of African Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Professor of African Studies, University of Cologne
Rainer Vossen is Professor Emeritus of African Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. He has published descriptive and comparative studies on Khoisan, Nilotic, Bantu, and Mande languages as well as on dialectological, sociolinguistic, and historical topics. His recent books include the edited volumes The Khoesan Languages (Routledge, 2013), and African Sociolinguistic and Sociocultural Studies (Rüdiger Köppe, 2014).
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal is Professor of African Studies at the University of Cologne. He has published descriptive and comparative studies on languages belonging to three different language families, Afroasiatic, Niger-Congo, and Nilo-Saharan, as well as on anthropological linguistics. His more recent monographs include Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages (Benjamins, 2011) and The Leopard's Spots: Essays on Language, Cognition and Culture (Brill, 2015).
Yuko Abe, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan
Rose-Juliet Anyanwu, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria & Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Thomas Bearth, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Sebastian K. Bemile, Ghana Institute of Languages, Accra, Ghana
Klaus Beyer, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Koen Bostoen, Ghent University, Belgium
Pascal Boyeldieu, LLACAN, Villejuif, France
Solomija Buk, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine
Bernard Caron, LLACAN, Villejuif, France
Tucker G. Childs, Portland State University, OR, USA
Norbert Cyffer, University of Vienna, Austria
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, University of Cologne, Germany
Helen Eaton, SIL International, Uganda-Tanzania Branch
James Essegbey, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Axel Fleisch, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Zygmunt Frajzyngier, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Patricia Friedrich, Munich, Germany
Ludwig Gerhardt, University of Hamburg, Germany
Jeff Good, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
Osamu Hieda, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan
Andrea Hollington, University of Cologne, Germany
Henry Honken, Sarona, WI, USA
Ellen Hurst, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Balázs Irsay-Nagy, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Angelika Jakobi, University of Cologne, Germany
Elke Karan, SIL International, Dallas, TX, USA
Kazuhiro Kawachi, National Defense Academy of Japan
Michael Kenstowicz, MIT Cambridge, MA, USA
Roland Kießling, University of Hamburg, Germany
Christa Kilian-Hatz, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Bernhard Köhler, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Maarten Kossmann, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu, University of Ghana - Legon, Accra, Ghana
Mena Lafkioui, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Université Sorbonne, Paris, & LLACAN, Villejuif, France
Karsten Legère, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Kristin Vold Lexander, University of Oslo, Norway
Zelealem Leyew, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Friederike Lüpke, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
Lutz Marten, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
Gudrun Miehe, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Wilhelm J. G. Möhlig, University of Cologne, Germany
Maarten Mous, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Victoria A. S. Nyst, Leiden University, The Netherlands
David Odden, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Jonathan Owens, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Helma Pasch, University of Cologne, Germany
Doris L. Payne, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
Victor Porkhomovsky, Russian Academy of Sciences & Lomonossov State University, Moscow, Russia
Nicolas Quint, LLACAN, Villejuif, France
David Roberts, Independent Researcher, Togo
Andrij Rovenchak, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine
Maren Rüsch, University of Cologne, Germany
Coffi Sambiéni, University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin
David L. Schoenbrun, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Henning Schreiber, University of Hamburg, Germany
Ingse Skattum, University of Oslo, Norway
Gabriele Sommer, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Lameen Souag, LACITO, Paris, France
Kembo Sure, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya
Catherine Taine-Cheikh, LACITO, Paris, France
Mauro Tosco, University of Turin, Italy
Martine Vanhove, LLACAN, Villejuif, France
Clarissa Vierke, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Rainer Vossen, Rainer, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Valentin Vydrin, LLACAN, Villejuif, France
Jochen Zeller, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Ulrike Zoch, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
