Prof. Amina Mettouchi is Directeur d’Etudes in Berber Linguistics at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes.
Her main research topics cover aspect, mood, negation and reference in Berber, the interaction between prosody, information structure and syntax in Kabyl, the role of corpora in cross-linguistic research and grammaticalization and comparative Berber morphosyntax.

Prof. Cyril Aslanov is Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Department of Romance and Latin American Studies and the Chairman of the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization. He is also a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.
His research areas are languages in contact, especially in the Mediterranean space, historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, the history of translation, and poetics.

Prof. Davide Ricca is Full Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Turin.
Most of his recent research activity has concentrated on morphology. Theoretical and descriptive interests are both present in his investigations on adverb morphology and deverbal adjectives in Italian, while other works take a cross-linguistic approach to theoretically relevant morphological issues.

Prof. Gabriella Mazzon is Professor of Linguistics at the Universität Innsbruck.
She is especially interested in varieties of English, pragmatics, dialogue analysis and historical linguistics.

Prof. Greville Corbett is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Surrey.
His research interests cover typology, morphosyntactic features and inflectional morpholog.

Prof. Pierluigi Cuzzolin is Full Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Bergamo.
His main research interests are historical linguistics (morphology, syntax and semantics) and linguistic typology.

Prof. Roberta D’Alessandro is Professor of Italian language at the University of Leiden.
Her main interests are syntactic microvariation, Italo-Romance dialectology, and the syntax-phonology interface.

Prof. Ray Fabri is Associate Professor in Linguistics and Chairman of the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Malta.
His research interests cover the Maltese language, formal theories of language, syntax, morphology and language typology.

Prof. Michele Loporcaro is Professor of Romance Linguistics Romanischen Seminar der Universität Zürich.
His main research interests cover Italian and Romance linguistics, historical linguistics and theoretical linguistics.

Dr. Michael Spagnol completed his PhD in Linguistics at the University of Konstanz, Germany.
He is Lecturer in Maltese Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, University of Malta and his research interests include Maltese syntax and lexical semantics and Academic Maltese.

Prof. Amina Mettouchi is Directeur d’Etudes in Berber Linguistics at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Her main research topics cover aspect, mood, negation and reference in Berber, the interaction between prosody, information structure and syntax in Kabyl, the role of corpora in cross-linguistic research and grammaticalization and comparative Berber morphosyntax.

Prof. Gilles Authier is Directeur d’Etudes in Languages and philology of the Caucasus at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris).
His main research deals with linguistic typology and the documentation and description of understudied languages of Azerbaijan and Daghestan like Kryz, Tat or Budugh.

Prof. Giuliano Bernini is Full Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Bergamo.
His main areas of research pertain to Second language acquisition, Language typology, Language teaching, Dialectology and Sociolinguistics.

Prof. Gianguido Manzelli is Full Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Pavia.
His main interests cover Historical linguistics, Linguistic typology and Sociolinguistics in different areas of Europe, the Mediterranean, Northern Asia and the Americas.