Allan - The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics

Mrta Abrusn is a CNRS Research Scientist at the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse at the Universit Paul Sabatier. After her PhD in linguistics at MIT she was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Collegium Budapest, the Institut Jean-Nicod in Paris and the universities of Oxford and Gttingen. Her published work includes papers in Linguistics and Philosophy , Natural Language Semantics , Semantics and Pragmatics and the Journal of Semantics .

Keith Allan MLitt, PhD (Edinburgh), FAHA, is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Monash University and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland. His research interests focus mainly on aspects of meaning in language, with a secondary interest in the history and philosophy of linguistics. He has authored and/or edited a dozen books and made scores of contributions to scholarly books and journals. Homepage: http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/keith-allan.

Nicholas Asher is currently Director of Research at the Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique and is a member of the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse. Prior to that, he was Professor of Philosophy and of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in formal semantics and pragmatics and also has interests in computational semantics and NLP. He has recently authored a book on lexical semantics, Lexical Meaning in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He has also written two books on SDRT, a theory of discourse structure and interpretation Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993) and Logics of Conversation (Cambridge University Press, 2003). He has written over 190 papers for journals, learned conferences and book chapters.

Walter Bisang Dr. phil. I (Zrich) has been Professor of General and Comparative Linguistics at the University of Mainz (Germany) since 1992. He was the Director of a Collaborative Research Center on Cultural and Linguistic Contact from 1999 to 2008 in Mainz. His research interests focus on linguistic typology, grammaticalization, language contact/areal typology and the comparison of different theoretical approaches to language. His languages of interest are East and mainland south-east Asian languages, Caucasian languages (Georgian and others), Austronesian languages (Bahasa Indonesia, Tagalog, Yabm, Paiwan), and Yoruba (together with Remi Sonaiya). Homepage: www.linguistik.fb05.uni-mainz.de/mitarbeiter/walter-bisang/.

Cedric Boeckx is Research Professor at ICREA (The Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies) and a member of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Barcelona. He also directs the Biolinguistics Initiative Barcelona, a research group dedicated to uncovering the biological basis of the language faculty. Homepage: http://biolinguistics-bcn.info.

Geert Booij was Professor of Linguistics in Amsterdam (19712005), and in Leiden (20052012). He is now Emeritus Professor. He is founder and editor of the book series Yearbook of Morphology and its successor, the journal Morphology , the author of a number of books, among which Construction Morphology (2010), and The Grammar of Words (2005, thirrd edition 2012), and of articles on phonology and morphology, with special focus on Dutch, in a wide range of books and journals. Homepage: http://geertbooij.wordpress.com.

Kersti Brjars is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester and she has academic qualifications from the universities of Uppsala and Leiden. Her interests are in the areas of syntax and morphology, including general theoretical issues as well as how languages change over time. She has had funded projects on Pennsylvania German and on the possessive in Germanic. Homepage: http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/Profile.aspx?Id=kersti.borjars.

Kate Burridge is Professor of Linguistics at Monash University and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Her main areas of research are: language change, the notion of linguistic taboo and the structure and history of English. Recent books include Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language (with Keith Allan, 2006), Introducing English Grammar (with Kersti Brjars, 2010), Gift of the Gob: Morsels of English Language History (2010) and Wrestling with Words and Meanings: Essays in Honour of Keith Allan (with Rka Benczes, 2014).

Andrew Butcher is Emeritus Professor of Communication Disorders at Flinders University, Adelaide. He has degrees in Linguistics and Phonetics from the universities of Edinburgh and London and a PhD in phonetics from the University of Kiel. His main areas of research involve the instrumental measurement of articulatory parameters such as tonguepalate contact, oral and nasal air flow and pressure, vocal fold activity and the acoustic analysis of voice and speech. His particular interest is in the phonetics of Australian Aboriginal languages, which he has been researching for over twenty years. His most recent project studies the relationship between speech production, speech perception and hearing impairment in Aboriginal children. Homepage: www.flinders.edu.au/people/andy.butcher.

Marisa Casillas , MA, PhD (Stanford), is a postdoctoral researcher in the Language and Cognition department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Her work primarily examines the relationship between conversational turn-taking and linguistic processing in children and adults with a more general emphasis on the co-development of linguistic and pragmatic interactional skills. Homepage: www.mpi.nl/people/casillas-marisa.

Eve V. Clark , MA Hons, PhD (Edinburgh), KNAW, is the Richard Lyman Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. Her research focuses on childrens acquisition of meaning, the conceptual and social sources they draw on, how adult speech helps shape early meanings, and the pragmatics of adult and child communicative interaction. She has published several books on language acquisition, including two major texts in psycholinguistics, and a large number of journal articles and book chapters in the field. Homepage: http://web.stanford.edu/~eclark.