Tom Güldemann is Professor for African linguistics and sociolinguistic at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He specializes in African linguistics with a particular focus on languages subsumed under 'Khoisan' in the Kalahari Basin area of southern Africa as well as on Bantu and wider Niger-Congo. Patrick McConvell has worked on Australian Indigenous languages especially in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. He has published extensively on the social history of Hunter-gatherer languages in general, and language shift, code-switching and mixing of languages. Richard A. Rhodes is Associate Professor of Linguistics at University of California, Berkeley and an internationally recognized expert in Algonquian studies. His recent work has focused on descriptive syntax and nineteenth-century-Ojibwe/Ottawa documents.
