Aurelija Usonienė is a Professor of Linguistics and Head of the Department of English Philology at Vilnius University, Lithuania. Her main areas of research are contrastive corpus-based studies, syntax-semantics interface, epistemic modality, evidentiality, and grammaticalization. Her main publications are concerned with the categories of epistemic modality, evidentiality and complementation in a cross-linguistic perspective. Nicole Nau is a Professor of Baltic Languages and Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Her publications focus on the grammar of Latvian and Latgalian, language contact and areal linguistics, second language acquisition and language planning.Ineta Dabašinskienė is a Professor of Linguistics at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. Her research interests are related to socio- and psycholinguistics, especially to first and second language acquisition, normal and impaired language development, language use and variation.