R. Amritavalli (M.A., Bangalore, M.A., Ph.D., Simon Fraser) retired in 2015 from The English & Foreign Languages University, where she held professorships in the schools of Language Education and Linguistics, and administrative positions including that of Vice Chancellor. Her linguistic research centres on syntactic categories and argument- and clause-structure in Kannada and Hindi. Her work on the acquisition of first and second languages in natural and instructional settings has contributed to the policy and practice of English Language Teaching in India. She is author of English in Deprived Circumstances: Maximising Learner Autonomy (2007), and co-author or Dravidian Syntax and Universal Grammar.

Bhuvana Narasimhan is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She conducts corpus-based and experimental research in language acquisition, linguistics, and the language-cognition interface. Her topics of research include word meaning, argument structure,

case-marking, and information structure from a crosslinguistic and developmental perspective with a focus on Hindi and Tamil.