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Adam Ledgeway is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the Academia Europaea. Formerly Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and now Professor of Italian Linguistics at the University of Bergamo, his research focuses on the historical development and morphosyntax of Romance languages, language change, and contact linguistics.

Edith Aldridge is a Research Fellow at Academia Sinica and a former Associate Professor at the University of Washington. Her expertise lies in diachronic and comparative syntax, focusing on Austronesian languages, Chinese, and Japanese.

Anne Breitbarth is an Associate Professor at Ghent University, specializing in historical German linguistics, morphosyntactic change, and formal corpus linguistics. She has led major research projects and serves as an editor for Taal & Tongval.

Katalin É. Kiss is Professor Emeritus at the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on Uralic languages, syntactic theory, and diachronic syntax. She has authored over 250 scholarly works.

Joseph Salmons is the Lester W.J. "Smoky" Seifert Professor of Language Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. An expert in sound change and historical linguistics, he edited Diachronica for nearly two decades.

Alexandra Simonenko is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Ghent University. She is currently the Principal Investigator for the ERC-funded project CAUSALITY, aimed at modeling potential cause-effect relations in language change.