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1. Bernard Comrie

   Author of Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology, Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics), Tense (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

2. R. M. W. Dixon

   Author of The Rise and Fall of Languages, Ergativity (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)

3. Timothy Shopen

   Author of Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume III, Grammatical Categories and the Lexicon, Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume II, Complex Constructions

4. April M. S. McMahon

   Author of Understanding Language Change, Language Classification by Numbers

5. Peter Ladefoged

   Author of The Sounds of the World's Languages (Phonological Theory), Vowels and Consonants

6. Joan Bybee

   Author of The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World

7. R. S. McGregor

   Author of Outline of Hindi Grammar: With Exercises

8. Arthur Anthony MacDonell

   Author of Vedic Grammar for Students

9. Marianne Mithun

   Author of The Languages of Native North America (Cambridge Language Surveys)

10. Alice C. Harris

    Author of Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)

11. Robert S. P. Beekes

    Author of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction

12. Noam Chomsky

    Author of The Sound Pattern of English

13. Richard D. Janda

    Author of The Handbook of Historical Linguistics (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics)

14. Geoffrey K. Pullum

    Author of The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language

15. Andrew Spencer

    Author of Morphological Theory: An Introduction to Word Structure in Generative Grammar (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)

16. Masayoshi Shibatani

    Author of The Languages of Japan (Cambridge Language Surveys)

17. Thomas E. Payne

    Author of Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field Linguists

18. Hans Henrich Hock

    Author of Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics

19. Carl Darling Buck

    Author of A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages: A Contribution to the History of Ideas

20. Merritt Ruhlen

    Author of A Guide to the World's Languages: Volume I, Classification