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This international panel is comprised of linguists who specialize in a wide range of linguistic subfields. Panelists provide guidance for the Wiley-Blackwell Language & Linguistics Compass Discussion Forum and encourage discussion of each article.

	Rich Alderson linguistalderson.users.panix.com Rich Alderson is an Indo-Europeanist by training and inclination, who began his studies 40 years ago as an undergraduate and hopes never to consider them complete. In addition to Indo-European studies, he has spent time on several Native American families and on the Kartvelian family of the southern Caucasus. His theoretical interests are mostly phonology and morphology, although he spent a good deal of time in the phonetics lab as well in graduate school. In the 1980s, Rich did independent research in artificial intelligence in the areas of natural language processing and knowledge representation, and became interested in the implementation of computer languages. He has worked in the computer industry for the last 30 years, as a computer systems administrator, computer facilities manager, and operating systems and applications developer. In the 1990s, he was the moderator for two internet mailing lists devoted to wideranging discussions in Indo-European and Nostratic, which are now in the archives maintained by The LINGUIST List. Rich is currently employed as a senior curator for a small computer museum in Seattle, responsible for exhibit design and collections management.
	Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm eoa5cornell.edu Cecilia ("Cissi") Ovesdotter Alm is originally from Sweden. She completed her doctorate in Linguistics at the University of Illinois. Her areas of research include computational linguistics, second language studies, computer-assisted learning, and sociolinguistics. For instance, Alm's dissertation, now published in book format, modeled and experimented computationally with affect in written and spoken language, among other aspects. She has also engaged in joint research with computational vision colleagues on discriminating image senses. In Scandinavian studies, her work concentrates mainly on R&D related to Swedish applied linguistics and digital learning.
	Esmat Babaii ebabaiigmail.com Esmat Babaii got her PhD in Applied Linguistics from Shiraz University, Iran. She is currently an assistant professor at the University for Teacher Education, Iran, teaching discourse analysis, language testing, research methods, contrastive rhetoric, translation, graduate seminar and SLA. She is particularly interested in discourse analysis (mainstream or critical), assessment, EFL materials development, functional linguistics, appraisal theory and narrative studies. She has published widely in local and international journals.
	Katalin Balogné Bérces bbkatiyahoo.com Katalin Balogné Bérces took her PhD in English Linguistics from the Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary, in 2006. Her fields of research are phonological theory, Government Phonology, syllable structure and consonantal processes, with special interest in the phonology and dialectal variation of English. Her PhD thesis, entitled "Strict CV Phonology and the English Cross-Word Puzzle", was published by VDM Verlag Dr. Müller in 2008. She works as a lecturer at the English Department of Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPKE), Piliscsaba, Hungary, and has taught various courses on English linguistics, phonology, syntax and dialectology. Her publications include "The pronunciation of English" (Budapest: HEFOP, 2006), a textbook and digital material, co-authored with Szilárd Szentgyörgyi, and "Beginner's English Dialectology" (Budapest: Ad Librum, 2008).
	Andrea Berez aberezumail.ucsb.edu Andrea L. Berez is a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is primarily a field linguist who works with speakers of Ahtna, an Athabascan language of southcentral Alaska. Her research interests include language documentation, morphology, language technology, intonation, and discourse-functional linguistics.
	Billy Clark B.Clarkmdx.ac.uk Billy Clark is Senior Lecturer in English Language at Middlesex University and Senior Teaching Fellow in Pragmatics at University College London. His research interests centre mainly on linguistic meaning (semantics and pragmatics). His doctoral thesis was on the semantics of non-declarative sentences in English within the framework of relevance theory. His current research is in three areas: intonational meaning, stylistics and the inferential processes involved in writing. He was Section Editor and contributor for the section on 'Foundations of Linguistics' in the fourteen-volume Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, edited by Keith Brown in 2006. He has worked on a number of committees concerned with the links between linguistics and education, including a group working towards the development of an A Level in Linguistics. He is currently preparing a book on Relevance Theory for Cambridge University Press.
	Bethany K Dumas dumasbutk.edu Bethany Dumas is a professor of English and Member of the IDP Linguistics Program, The University of Tennessee. She received her BA from Lamar University, 1959, her MA from University of Arkansas, 1961, and PhD from University of Arkansas, 1971, J.D., University of Tennessee, 1985. She is a published author on language variation, discourse analysis, and language in judicial process, especially jury instructions and product warnings. She teaches courses and workshops, including CLE workshops, in variation and language and law topics. She has testified in court cases since 1984.
	Chiara Gianollo chiara.gianollouni-konstanz.de Chiara Gianollo studied in Pisa, Utrecht, Los Angeles, and Trieste. She received her doctoral degree in Linguistics from the University of Pisa in 2005. Her research interests center on the modeling of linguistic variation and the dynamics of language change. She has been mostly working on the diachrony of Latin syntax, investigating in particular the interplay of Case and word order in the nominal phrase, the system of voice distinctions and the category of deponent verbs. She has taken part in a collaborative project at the University of Trieste on the import of parametric linguistics for historical and genealogical purposes. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz / Zukunftskolleg, where she is developing a research project on the comparative syntax of adnominal genitive case in ancient Indo-European languages.
	Kleanthes K. Grohmann kleanthiucy.ac.cy Kleanthes Grohmann is a theoretical linguist (PhD from the University of Maryland, 2000) working mainly in biolinguistics at large, generative syntax specifically (Minimalism), and as of recent typically-developing and language-impaired acquisition, with a focus on (Cypriot) Greek. Not content with his full-time workload (University of Cyprus, since 2003), he is co-founding editor of a new journal (Biolinguistics, www.biolinguistics.eu ) and a new book series (Language Faculty and Beyond, John Benjamins), (co-)author and editor of a dozen volumes or so, and active participant in all other kinds of related jobs -- such as this one! On the syntax side, his main interests are architecture of the grammar (Spell-Out and the PF-side of things) and derivational operations (Merge and Move), and the left periphery in particular, including all kinds of A'-related displacement operations and phenomena (e.g., wh- movement or left dislocation).
	Hossein Kassaie hossein.kassaiegmail.com Hossein Kassaie, from Tehran, Iran, has always been interested in language and how people speak. As a result, Linguistics and its branches have become his areas of study. He has been a field researcher in the departments of Dialectology & Lexicography in the Academy of Persian Language and Literature. He is the founder of the International Association of Young Linguists (www.IAYL.org) and he along with his professors comprise its board of founders. He is interested most specifically in Sociolinguistics, Semantics, and Applied Linguistics.
	Nikolaos Lavidas nlavidasenl.auth.gr Nikolaos Lavidas is a Lecturer in Historical Linguistics at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He studied in Athens, Rhodes, Girona, Lublin, Stuttgart, and Boston. He has a BA and an MA in Linguistics (with a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation) and a PhD in Historical Linguistics (with a scholarship from the A. Onassis Foundation; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens). Prior to his employment at the Aristotle University, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of the Aegean (with a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation), and he taught Historical Linguistics at the University of Peloponnese, the University of Patras and the University of the Aegean. He has published articles on Historical Linguistics: Syntactic Change, Argument Structure in Diachrony, Indo-European Linguistics.
	Riceli C. Mendoza rjbalutyahoo.com Riceli Cano-Mendoza, is an ESL/Linguistics teacher from the Philippines. She obtained her PhD in Applied Linguistics at the De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines. She has been teaching in the undergraduate and graduate levels. Subjects that she has taught in the undergraduate level include Introduction to Linguistics, Language Curriculum in Secondary Schools, Preparation and Evaluation of Instructional Materials, Remedial English, Literatures of the Philippines, Literatures of the World, Developmental Reading, Grammar and Composition and Interactive Grammar. Graduate level courses include Current Syntactic Theory, The Study of Languages, Teaching English As A Second Language, Sociolinguistics, Language Testing and Assessment, Discourse Analysis, Advanced Grammar of Philippine Languages, Basic Journalism, Psycholinguistics, Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching: Theory and Practice. As a teacher, she is also involved in research and extension. Currently, she is the Deputy Director of the University's Extension Services Center. She was able to present her dissertation entitled "The Philosophy and Practice of Composition Teaching Among English Teachers" at an international conference on Language Education held at the Hongkong Institute of Education on December 13-15, 2001.
	Ramesh Mishra rkmishracbcs.ac.in Dr. Ramesh Kumar Mishra is a psycholinguist interested in language processing and multi-modal interaction. This includes the interaction between the linguistic system and the visual and attentional networks. Very recently, Dr. Mishra was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholingusitics in the Netherlands and he is currently working on multi-modal interaction in illiterates and several aspects of spoken language processing. He is interested in language and visual processing in clinical populations. He primarily uses eye tracking to understand multi-modal interaction. Dr. Mishra teaches courses on Psycholinguistics, Language and Mind, Speech production and recognition at the Centre for Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Allahabad University.
	Matin Mortazavi mortazavi.matingmail.com Matin Mortazavi has a Masters degree in Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies. In his two years of study at HCU (Hyderabad Central University), he was exposed to some aspects of linguistics which extremely fascinated him, namely, Philosophy of Language and Formal Semantics. By the end of his studies at Masters level, he decided to explore the field of acquisition studies and that was when he moved to The English and Foreign Languages University in Hyderabad where he started an MA degree focusing on Second Language Acquisition. At the moment, he is teaching at different institutes and at the same time collecting data on acquisition of unaccusative verbs in English by speakers of English as a Foreign Language. He is especially interested in the morphosyntactic and semantic reasons why learners of a second/foreign language wrongly overpassivize unaccusative verbs.
	Marc Pierce mpiercmail.utexas.edu Marc Pierce (PhD Michigan) is an assistant professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His published research is mainly in the areas of historical linguistics (especially historical phonology and etymology), phonology, the history of linguistics, and Texas German. He teaches or has taught a variety of courses in Germanic linguistics and philology (including the history of the German language, Old Saxon, and the structure of the German language), as well as courses in German language and literature, Scandinavian literature, and Great Books.
	Sarah Russe s.russecomcast.net A medical writer by profession, Sarah recently completed the master's program in linguistics at Northeastern Illinois. Her thesis studies focused on multimodal discourse analysis and prescription drug marketing. While she is thoroughly intrigued by most areas of linguistic study, her greatest interests continue to lie in sociolinguistics and discourse analysis - essentially, in the way that various aspects of communication (verbal and extraverbal) are used together and separately to convey meaning.
	Amrendra Singh jnu.amargmail.com Amrendra Singh is presently working as a faculty in Business Communication at JETGI. Prior to this, he was associated with the National Testing Service-India, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. He is currently engaged in the OT account of Word Formation Processes in Tibeto Burman Languages in India. The work examines the general behavior of the constraints working on the types of processes available in Tibeto Burman languages in India. He is also engaged in the documentation of Adi-Pasi, a language spoken in the Arunachal Pradesh, India as a part of an individual project, funded by Endangered Language Fund (ELF), Yale University, USA. His research areas include theories and research in the fields of psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, phonology, morphology and Inter-Cultural Communication.
	Peter Wood peter.woodusask.ca Peter Wood teaches German and Linguistics at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He is interested in Computational Linguistics, Syntactic Theory, Morphology and Semantics. His main research focus is the development of Intelligent Compuer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) applications.
	Ren Zhang ren.zhangutoronto.ca Ren Zhang, PhD is a professor of linguistics at the School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University. His major research interests include Cognitive Grammar, Construction Grammar, Cognitive Semantics and Syntactic Theory, with a particular focus on the syntax and semantics of Mandarin Chinese.

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