Laurie Bauer FRSNZ is Emeritus Professor at Victoria University of Wellington. He has published extensively on morphology, particularly on word formation, and in a number of related areas, such as the description of varieties of English, phonetics, phonology, and the recent history of the English. He is the co-author, with Rochelle Lieber and Ingo Plag, of The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology (OUP, 2013), which won the Leonard Bloomfield Award in 2015. Salvador Valera is Associate Professor at the University of Granada. His research focuses primarily on morphology, especially on conversion and related areas of lexical semantics, and also on syntax. His work has been published in leading journals, and in edited volumes published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, de Gruyter, John Benjamins, and Routledge.
