Michael Fortescue is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, now associated with St Hugh's College, Oxford. His special area of interest is Arctic and Sub-Arctic languages, principally Eskimo-Aleut, but also Chukotko-Kamchatkan and Wakashan languages. He has also published extensively in the more general fields of comparative, typological, cognitive, and functional linguistics.

Marianne Mithun is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Much of her work has been in the areas of morphology, syntax, discourse, prosody, and their interrelations; language contact and language change; typology and universals; and language documentation. She has worked with numerous typologically diverse languages including Mohawk, Central Alaskan Yup'ik, Navajo, and Selayarese.

Nicholas Evans is ARC Laureate Fellow and Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the Australian National University, and Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language. He has carried out wide-ranging fieldwork on traditional languages of northern Australia and southern Papua New Guinea, including Bininj Gun-wok, Dalabon, and Kayardild. He has also worked as a linguist, interpreter, and anthropologist in Native Title claims.

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, James Cook University
Shanley Allen, University of Kaiserslautern
Gregory D. S. Anderson, University of South Africa
Peter Bakker, Aarhus University
Balthasar Bickel, University of Zurich
Joe Blythe, University of Melbourne
Anna Bugaeva, Tokyo University of Science
Una Canger, University of Copenhagen
Wallace Chafe, University of California, Santa Barbara
Claudine Chamoreau, CNRS Paris
Östen Dahl, Stockholm University
Lucinda Davidson, University of Melbourne
Louis-Jacques Dorais, formerly Université Laval
Lynn Drapeau, Université du Québec à Montréal
Nicholas Evans, Australian National University
William A. Foley, University of Sydney
William Forshaw, University of Melbourne
Michael Fortescue, University of Copenhagen
T. Givón, University of Oregon
Ekaterina Gruzdeva, University of Helsinki
Carmen Jany, California State University, San Bernardino
Barbara Kelly, University of Melbourne
Megumi Kurebito, University of Toyama
Yury Lander, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Johanna Mattissen, University of Cologne and University of Bonn
Jekaterina Mazara, University of Zurich
Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara
Toshihide Nakayama, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Johanna Nichols, University of California, Berkeley
Rachel Nordlinger, University of Melbourne
Willem J. de Reuse, University of Texas at Austin
Sally Rice, University of Alberta
Jerrold Sadock, University of Chicago
Sabine Stoll, University of Zurich
Stella Telles, Federal University of Pernambuco
Yakov G. Testelets, Russian Academy of Sciences
Peter Trudgill, Agder University and University of East Anglia
Edward Vajda, Western Washington University
Nikolai Vakhtin, European University St Petersburg
Hein van der Voort, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém
Honoré Watanabe, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Leo Wetzels, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Gillian Wigglesworth, University of Melbourne
Anthony C. Woodbury, University of Texas at Austin
Fernando Zuñiga, University of Bern