Jae Jung Song was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Otago. Among his research interests were linguistic typology, Korean linguistics, Oceanic linguistics, and language policy. His books include Linguistic Typology: Morphology and Syntax (Longman, 2001), The Korean Language: Structure, Use and Context (Routledge, 2005), and Word Order (CUP, 2012), and, as editor, The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Typology (OUP, 2010; paperback 2013). He had held visiting appointments with Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) and La Trobe University (Melbourne).

Dik Bakker, University of Amsterdam
Balthasar Bickel, University of Leipzig
Walter Bisang, Johannes Gutenber University, Mainz
Melissa Bowerman, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen
Dunstan Brown, University of Surrey
Joan Bybee, University of New Mexico
Greville G. Corbett, University of Surrey
Sonia Cristofaro, University of Pavia
Michael Daniel, Moscow State University
Ferdinand de Haan, University of Arizona
Fred Eckman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Patience Epps, University of Texas at Austin
Nicholas Evans, Australian National University
Volker Gast, Friedrich Schiller University
Giorgi Graffi, University of Verona
John Haiman, Macalester College (St Paul, USA)
John A. Hawkins, University of Cambridge
Seppo Kittilä, University of Helsinki
Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Stockholm University
Leonid Kulikov, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
Ian Maddieson, University of California (Berkeley) and University of New Mexico
Edith A. Moravcsik, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Maria Polinsky, Harvard University
Beatrice Primus, University of Cologne
Paolo Ramat, University of Pavia
Kenneth Shields, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Anna Siewierska
Jae Jung Song, University of Otago
Leon Stassen, Radboud University Nijmegen
Johan van der Auwera, University of Antwerp
Lindsay Whaley, Dartmouth College