New applications of Role & Reference Grammar: Diachrony, Grammaticalization, Romance languages

Ranko Matasović (*1968 in Zagreb, Croatia) received his Ph. D. from the University of Zagreb in 1995. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) from 1997-8 and a Humboldt Fellow at Bonn University from 2002-3. He is currently full professor of comparative linguistics at the University of Zagreb.

Eva Staudinger (*1976 in Heilbronn, Germany) studied computational linguistics, linguistics, English and Romance languages at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is currently a research assistant at the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg in the department of Romance languages.

Björn Wiemer (*1966 in Hamburg, Germany) studied Slavic and General Linguistics in Hamburg and Leningrad (M.A. 1992, Hamburg). Before his PhD (1996, Hamburg) he was a post-graduate student for two years in Warsaw. From 1996-2007, he worked at the Chair of Slavic Languages at the University of Constance (Germany), where he finished his post-doctoral thesis in 2002. Since 2007, he is Professor at the Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.