- Victor Junnan Pan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages)
- Rint Sybesma (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden Institute for Area Studies)
Syntactic Cross-linguistic variation
- Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics)
Chinese Aspect and Modality
- Barbara Meisterernst (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
- Claire Saillard (Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle)
Teaching Chinese as a Second Language
- Jane Orton (University of Melbourne, Melbourne Graduate School of Education)
Chinese as Lingua Franca
- Istvan Kecskes (University at Albany, Department of Communication and Department of Educational Theory and Practice)
Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad context
- Martin Howard (University College Cork, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures)