Bas Aarts is Professor of English Linguistics andDirector of the Survey of English Usage at University CollegeLondon. His publications include Small Clauses in English: TheNonverbal Types (1992), The Verb in Contemporary English(edited with Charles F. Meyer, 1995), English Syntax andArgumentation (1997/2001), Investigating Natural Language:Working with the British Component of the International Corpus ofEnglish (with Gerald Nelson and Sean Wallis, 2002), andFuzzy Grammar: A Reader (edited with David Denison, EvelienKeizer, and Gergana Popova, 2004). With David Denison and RichardHogg, he edits the journal English Language andLinguistics.
April McMahon is Forbes Professor of English Language atthe University of Edinburgh. Her publications includeUnderstanding Language Change (1994), Lexical Phonologyand the History of English (2000), Change, Chance, andOptimality (2000), An Introduction to English Phonology(2002), and Language Classification by Numbers (with RobertMcMahon, 2005).