Carola Trips is professor of English linguistics at the University of Mannheim. She received her PhD from the University of Stuttgart in 2001. Her main research interests have been synchronic and diachronic syntax and morphology, linguistic theory, language contact and lexical semantics. She is the author of a number of articles on these topics and of the following books: From OV to VO in Early Middle English (Amsterdam/New York: John Benjamins, 2002), and Lexical semantics and diachronic morphology: The development of -hood, -dom, and -ship in the history of English (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2009). She has also co-edited (with Eric Fuß) Diachronic clues to synchronic grammar (Amsterdam/New York: John Benjamins, 2004), (with Eric Fuß) a special issue of STUF (Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung): Morphological blocking and linguistic variation: a typological perspective (Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2009), (with Jaklin Kornfilt) a special issue of STUF (Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung): Phrasal compounds from a typological and theoretical perspective; 2015; Berlin: De Gruyter/Mouton.

Jaklin Kornfilt is professor of linguistics at Syracuse University. She received her PhD from Harvard University in 1984. She specializes in syntactic theory, theoretically informed linguistic typology, and the syntax—morphology interface, with special emphasis on the syntax and morphology of Turkish and of the Turkic languages. Her research interests extend to German and the Germanic languages, as well. She has published a descriptive reference grammar of Turkish (Turkish Grammar, 1997, London: Routledge), and she is currently involved in a theoretically focused project on the syntax of Turkish. She has co-edited (with B. Lust and G. Hermon) volume 2 of Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition (1994; Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum). She has also co-edited: (With J. Whitman) a special issue of Lingua (Studies in Syntactic Nominalization; 2011; Amsterdam: Elsevier), and (with C. Trips) a special issue of STUF (Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung): Phrasal compounds from a typological and theoretical perspective; 2015; Berlin: De Gruyter/Mouton. Her articles have included topics on historical syntax, binding, relativization, word order, nominalization, and first language acquisition.