Martine Vanhove is a Senior researcher at CNRS‒LLACAN, a Paris-based research department dedicated to the study of languages and cultures from Africa. Her primary focus are Semitic and Cushitic.

Alexandre François is a Senior researcher at CNRS‒LATTICE, a Paris-based research department specializing in theoretical and computational linguistics. His research focuses mainly on the Oceanic languages of the Pacific.

Walter Bisang is a Professor at the University of Mainz (Germany). He specializes in the study of East and Mainland Southeast Asian languages.

Andrej Malchukov also works at the University of Mainz. He is an expert of Manchu-Tungusic and Transeurasia in general, and has worked extensively on topics of grammatical typology.

Daniel Krauße is a postdoctoral researcher at CNRS‒LATTICE. His project is to study the typology of verbal complex predicates in the area known as Melanesia.

Katya Aplonova is a PhD candidate at CNRS‒LLACAN. Her dissertation focuses on the complex predicates of Ginyanga, a Kwa language of Togo.

Patryk Czerwinski is a PhD candidate at the University of Mainz. He works on the morphosyntax and areal typology of the languages of NE Asia, in particular Tungusic, Japanese and Korean.