International Linguistics Advisors

International Linguistics Advisors advise SIL on a variety of linguistic matters of practical and theoretical interest, including SIL training programs, publishing, funding for research, and other relevant issues. International Linguistics Advisors are respected members of the professional linguistics community who graciously volunteer their expertise to assist SIL in practical ways.

SIL is very grateful to these individuals for their scholarly collaboration and advice.

Current International Linguistics Advisors

• Willem F.H. Adelaar; Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL)
• Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald; Distinguished Professor and Research Leader (Peoples and Societies of the Tropics), The Cairns Institute and Faculty of Arts, Education and Social Sciences, James Cook University, Australia; http://www.jcu.edu.au/sass/staff/JCUPRD_043649.html and www.aikhenvaldlinguistics.com
• Mark C. Baker; Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University; http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mabaker/
• Steven Bird; University of Melbourne, Australia
• Raymond Boyd; Université d'Orléans, Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique (LLL);www.rblanguesdafrique.info
• Beban Sammy Chumbow; University of Yaounde 1, Department of African Languages and Linguistics and Vice President Cameroon Academy of Sciences; http://www.beban-chumbow.webs.com
• Bernard Comrie; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and University of California Santa Barbara; http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/staff/comrie/home.php
• Михаил Даниэль, Michael Daniel; Higher School of Economics (Moscow) / Moscow State University;http://www.philol.msu.ru/~otipl/new/main/people/daniel.php
• Jonathan P. Evans; Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica; http://www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/v3-3-1_en.asp-auserid=12.htm
• Carina Jahani; Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, Sweden;www.lingfil.uu.se/staff/carina_jahani
• Fernando Nava; Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• Maria Polinsky; Department of Linguistics, Harvard University; http://scholar.harvard.edu/mpolinsky/home
• 何德華 D. Victoria Rau; 國立中正大學語言學研究所, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan; http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngrau/
• Richard A. Rhodes; Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley;http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/person_detail.php?person=29
• Malcolm Ross; Australia National University, Australia
• Suwilai Premsrirat; Mahidol University, Thailand
• Robert van Valin; Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany and University at Buffalo, USA

For a list of former International Linguistics Advisors, see here.