Jan Nuyts is a Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Antwerp, having previously held positions at the universities of Salzburg, Amsterdam, Berkeley, and Heidelberg, and at the Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. His main research area is cognitive-functional semantics. His current focus of attention concerns the cognitive and functional structure of time-aspect-modality or qualificational categories - and the modal categories in particular - and their linguistic expressions, synchronically and diachronically, and what one can learn from them.

Johan van der Auwera is Professor of General and English Linguistics at the University of Antwerp, and editor-in-chief of the journal Linguistics. As a student and postdoctoral researcher he spent time at the universities of Antwerp, Berkeley, Stockholm, Hanover, and Nijmegen, alongside visiting appointments in Paris, Princeton, Gothenburg, Hong Kong, Kyoto, and Bangkok. His current research focuses on grammatical semantics and typology (including areal typology and dialectology), with special reference to mood, modality, negation, indefinites, and impersonals.

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, James Cook University
Karin Aijmer, University of Gothenburg
Umberto Ansaldo, University of Hong Kong
Johan van der Auwera, University of Antwerp
Katrin Axel-Tober, University of Tübingen
Dominique Bassano, CNRS, Université Paris 8
Ronny Boogaart, Leiden University
Kasper Boye, University of Copenhagen
Hilary Chappell, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Egbert Fortuin, Leiden University
Zygmunt Frajzyngier, University of Colorado Boulder
Remus Gergel, University of Graz
Björn Hansen, University of Regensburg
Maya Hickmann, CNRS, Université Paris 8
Terry Janzen, University of Manitoba
Magdalena Kaufmann, University of Connecticut
Stefan Kaufmann, University of Connecticut
†Frantisek Lichtenberk, University of Auckland
Andrej L. Malchukov, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Caterina Mauri, University of Pavia
Marianne Mithun, University of California Santa Barbara
Heiko Narrog, Tohoku University
Irina Nikolaeva, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Jan Nuyts, University of Antwerp
Alain Peyraube, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale, Paris
Andrea Sansò, University of Insubria
Barbara Shaffer, University of New Mexico
Mario Squartini, University of Turin
Daniel Van Olmen, Lancaster University
Viktor S. Xrakovskij, Russian Academy of Sciences
Alfonso Zamorano Aguilar, University of Córdoba
Debra Ziegeler, Université Paris III

"Overall, The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood is a rewarding reading experience, and it will likely remain a highly relevant resource in the years to come." -- Cameron Morin, Linguist List

"The range of topics covered in this book is impressive. It gives a most complete overview of the forms and meanings of modality and mood, as well as cross-linguistic perspectives on their synchrony and diachrony. It also offers a number of original angles such as areality, language acquisition, and sign languages. ...the Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood is a rewarding reading experience, and it will likely remain a highly relevant resource in the years to come." -- Cameron Morin, Linguist List