This book is meant for a linguistically oriented readership worldwide, throughout linguistic and related disciplines...I assume that typologists world-wide will also be happy to see this volume.
Marianne Bakró-Nagy is Professor Emerita at the Research Institute for Linguistics and the University of Szeged. She was formerly Head of Department and Deputy Director of the Research Institute and Chair of Finno-Ugric Studies at the University of Szeged, and has been a member of the Scientific Committee for Humanities of Science Europe, and an honorary member of the International Committee of Finno-Ugric Studies.
Johanna Laakso has been Professor of Finno-Ugric Studies at the University of Vienna since 2000. She is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Academia Europaea. From 2015-2021 she was President of the Organizing Committee for the International Congress in Finno-Ugric Studies.
Elena Skribnik is Professor Emerita and former Chair of Finno-Ugric and Uralic Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She has previously been Deputy Director of the Institute of Philology in the Siberian division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Humboldt Research Fellow and DAAD Guest Professor at the University of Hamburg, and is a member of the Organizing Committee for the International Congress in Finno-Ugric Studies.