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David Adger is Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of a number of monographs and articles on syntactic theory and its connections with other aspects of language. He was coeditor of the journal Syntax for seven years, and is coeditor of Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, which he founded in 2001. He was President of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain from 2015 to 2020. His latest book is Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power (OUP).

Artemis Alexiadou is a Professor of English Linguistics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and Vice‐Director of the Leibniz‐Centre General Linguistics (ZAS). She has published on the syntax of noun phrases and nominalization, transitivity alternations, word order variation, Case and the EPP, and language mixing.

Nicholas Allott is a Senior Lecturer in English language at the University of Oslo. He works on pragmatics; inference and rationality in communication; word meaning and lexical modulation; legal language and interpretation; and the philosophy of linguistics, particularly cognitively realistic approaches such as generative grammar and relevance theory. His publications include Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals (3rd ed. 2016) and The Responsibility of Intellectuals: Reflections by Noam Chomsky and others after 50 years (2019).

Mark Baker is a Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University, having received his PhD in Linguistics in 1985 from MIT. He specializes in the syntax and morphology of less‐studied languages, particularly those of the Americas, Africa, and Asia, seeking to bring together generative‐style theories, data collected from fieldwork, and typological comparison in a way that illuminates all three. He has written five research monographs and one book for a popular audience, The Atoms of Language (2001).

Lisa Lai‐Shen Cheng is a Professor of Linguistics at Leiden University. Her primary research interests are comparative syntax, and the interfaces (syntax and semantics, and syntax and phonology). Recent publications include “Wh‐question or wh‐declarative? Prosody makes the difference” (with Yang and Gryllia) in Speech Communication; and “(In)direct reference in the phonology‐syntax interface under phase theory” (with Bonet, Downing, and Mascaró) in Linguistic Inquiry.

Joshua Cohen is on the Faculty at Apple University; Distinguished Senior Fellow in Law, Philosophy, and Political Science at University of California, Berkeley; and co‐editor of Boston Review. He is co‐author, with Joel Rogers, of On Democracy (1983) and Associations and Democracy (1995), and author of Philosophy, Politics, Democracy (2009); The Arc of the Moral Universe (2010); and Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals (2011). He is also co‐editor of the Norton Introduction to Philosophy (second edition, 2018).

John Collins is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He mainly researches in the philosophy of language and the foundations of generative linguistics. He is the author of three monographs: Chomsky: A Guide for the Perplexed (2008), The Unity of Linguistic Meaning (2011), and Linguistic Pragmatism and Weather Reporting (2020).

Stephen Crain is a Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Australia. His framework for research is the biolinguistic approach to language, and he investigates the relationship between logic and child language from a crosslinguistic perspective.

Brian Dillon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a psycholinguist whose primary research interest is in real‐time sentence processing. His research seeks to better understand how comprehenders use syntactic information during language comprehension, using both cross‐linguistic experimental investigation and computational modeling.

Elly van Gelderen is a syntactician interested in language change. She teaches at Arizona State University. Her work shows how regular syntactic change (grammaticalization and the linguistic cycle) provides insight in the Faculty of Language. Publications include The Linguistic Cycle: Language Change and the Language (2011), Clause Structure (2013), Syntax (2017), and The Diachrony of Meaning (2018).

Iain Giblin is a Scholarly Teaching Fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney. His main research interest is child language acquisition with a focus on syntax and semantics.

Michael Glanzberg is a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He works on a number of topics in philosophy of language, logic, and the foundations of linguistic theory. He is a co‐author of Formal Theories of Truth and the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Truth.

James Griffiths holds the position of Junior Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Tübingen. Specializing in syntax and how it interacts with pragmatics, morphology, and phonology, his main research interest to date has been the distribution of parenthesis and ellipsis within and across languages. His longer articles on this topic have been published in the highly regarded journals Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and Syntax.

Tim Hunter is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Much of his research focus on syntax and its interfaces with experimental psycholinguistics and with semantics, from a computational perspective.

Lila Gleitman taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1972 until 2001, where she is currently Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychology. From 2000–2010 she was a visiting faculty at the Cognitive Science Institute (RUCCS) at Rutgers University. She is the (co‐)author of innumerable books and articles on language acquisition. In 2017 she was a recipient of the David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition. She is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Steven Gross is a Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, with secondary appointments in Cognitive Science and in Psychological and Brain Sciences. He has published on a variety of topics in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and the foundations of the mind‐brain sciences. His most recent publications have focused on perceptual consciousness and on cognitive penetration. Current projects include “anti‐Bayesian” updating in vision and whether linguistic meaning is perceived or computed post‐perceptually.

Tanja Kupisch is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz and Adjunct Professor at UiT, The Arctic University of Norway. Her research is primarily concerned with early bilingualism during childhood and adulthood, and especially the development of migrant and indigenous languages. Research domains include phonology and syntax. Current projects include ethnic policies and the acquisition of rhetorical questions.

Dave Kush is an Assistant Professor of Psycholinguistics at the University of Toronto and an Adjunct Professor at NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His research interests sit at the intersection of psycholinguistics and syntactic theory.

Joseph Levine is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Prof. Levine specializes in philosophy of mind, particularly the problem of consciousness. He has published one monograph, Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness, one edited collection, Quality and Content: Essays on Consciousness, Representation, and Modality, and many articles, including ‘Materialism and Qualia: The Explanatory Gap.’

Diane Lillo‐Martin is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of linguistics at the University of Connecticut, and a Senior Research Scientist at Haskins Laboratories. Her research interests include the acquisition of American Sign Language by deaf and hearing children in monolingual and bimodal bilingual contexts, and how analyses of the grammatical structure of ASL contribute to understanding linguistic universals.

Terje Lohndal is a Professor of English Linguistics at NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Adjunct Professor at UiT, The Arctic University of Norway. His main areas of research are comparative grammar, including research on multilingualism, and the history of generative linguistics.

Eloi Puig‐Mayenco holds a Lecturer Position at King's College London. His research focuses on bi‐/multilingualism during the lifespan. Specifically, he is interested in how previously acquired languages affect the initial stages and subsequent development of additive sequential multilingualism in childhood and adulthood.

Gereon Müller is a Professor of General Linguistics at Universität Leipzig. His main research interest is grammatical theory, with a special focus on syntax and morphology. An underlying assumption that guides his research is that both these systems are organized derivationally, with Chomsky's Strict Cycle Condition at the core.

Frederick J. Newmeyer is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington and Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. He is the author or editor of 12 books, including Linguistic Theory in America, Language Form and Language Function, and Possible and Probable Languages. In 2002, Newmeyer was President of the Linguistic Society of America.

Lisa Pearl is a Professor of Language Science at the University of California, Irvine. Her primary interests are in language acquisition and quantitative approaches to language science, including computational developmental modeling. She has authored 47 scholarly publications on these topics and maintains a YouTube channel with videos discussing related research ideas and educational content.

Paul M. Pietroski is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and a Member of the Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He is also Professor Emeritus in Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Maryland. His most recent book is Conjoining Meanings: Semantics without Truth Values.

Anne Reboul is a Senior Researcher at the National Center for Research Science (CNRS) in France. She is the head of her laboratory, the Institute for Cognitive Science‐Marc Jeannerod, in Lyons. She is mainly interested in philosophy of language and pragmatics with a strong interest in language evolution. Her last book, Cognition and Communication in the Evolution of Language, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017.

Charles Reiss is a Phonologist at Concordia University, Montreal, and a Founding Member of the Concordia Center for Cognitive Science. His publications include Phonology: A Formal Introduction (with semanticist Alan Bale); I‐language: An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science (with syntactician Dana Isac); and The Phonological Enterprise (with historical linguist Mark Hale).

Georges Rey is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland at College Park. He has written some sixty articles and a book, Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: a Contentiously Classical Approach, on the foundations of cognitive science, and has just completed a new book for Oxford University Press, Representation of Language: Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics.

Joel Rogers is the Chomsky Professor of Law, Political Science, Public Affairs and Sociology, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He also directs COWS, a national strategy center on “high‐road” development. This uses better democratic organization to reconcile, even in competitive markets, interest in fairness, sustainability, and public accountability by increasing the multifactor productivity of places and sharing its benefit. A widely published academic, he is also a long‐time social activist.

Jason Rothman is Professor of Linguistics at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway and Adjunct Professor of Psycholinguistics at Universidad Nebrija (Madrid). At UiT, he directs the Psycholinguistics of Language Representation (PoLaR) lab and is deputy director of the AcqVA Aurora Centre. He primarily works on language acquisition and processing across the life span as well as language induced/associated links to neurocognition in various bilingual/ multilingual populations.

Peter Sells is Professor of Linguistics at the University of York. His primary interests are in comparative syntactic theory and the relation between syntax and morphology.

Michelle Sheehan is Professor of Linguistics at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK. Her research is focused on comparative syntax, notably word order asymmetries, nonfinite embedding, and extraction restrictions. She has published in Linguistic Inquiry, Syntax, Journal of Linguistics, The Linguistic Review, Glossa, and with Oxford, Cambridge and MIT presses.

Roumyana Slabakova is Professor and Chair of Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton and Adjunct Research Professor at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. She investigates the interfaces of form and meaning in the linguistic competence of adult second language learners, heritage speakers and multilinguals. Her book Second Language Acquisition was published by Oxford University Press in 2016.

Neil Smith was Head of Linguistics at UCL for a third of a century until his retirement in 2006. He worked on West African languages, the acquisition of phonology, the savant syndrome, the thought of Noam Chomsky, and anything else that looked fun, from birdsong to bananas.

Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares is a PhD Marie Curie Student from the MultiMIND network based at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz, Germany. His research agenda involves, among others, the neural systems underlying bi‐ and multilingualism and third language transfer. He is currently using neuroimaging methodologies combined with behavioral techniques to advance the field of multilingualism and to improve foreign language pedagogy.

Peter Svenonius is a Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics at the UiT, The Arctic University of Norway. He works on syntax and its interfaces with semantics, morphology, and phonology.

Rosalind Thornton is a Professor at Macquarie University. Her work focuses on children's acquisition of syntax and semantics within the biolinguistic framework of linguistics.

Patrick C. Trettenbrein is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Neuropsychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. His main research interest is the neurobiology of language, currently focusing on sign language and modality (in)dependence of linguistic computations in the brain. Moreover, he is interested in how brains compute more generally.

Ianthi Maria Tsimpli is Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. She works on multilingualism, first and second language acquisition, language impairment, attrition, language processing and the interaction between language, cognitive abilities, education, and print exposure.

Veno Volenec is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). His research mainly focuses on phonology, phonetics, and their relationship.

Deirdre Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at University College London. Her main research interests are in communication and theoretical pragmatics: her long‐standing collaboration with Dan Sperber (Relevance: Communication and Cognition; Meaning and Relevance) has led to publications on a wide variety of pragmatic topics, from disambiguation and reference resolution to rhetoric, style and the interpretation of literary works. Her novel Slave of the Passions was shortlisted for two prizes, and she has just completed a second.

Emiliano Zaccarella is Group Leader in the Department of Neuropsychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. He is primarily interested in understanding the general organizational principles of linguistic combinatorial abstraction in the human brain.

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