Lombard Gradual, Italy, mid 15th century Medievalists at Cornell

This section provides information on the people in the Program of Medieval Studies at Cornell, including faculty, staff, graduate students, and alumni/ae. Dissertation abstracts from previous years are available under the graduate students heading.


Medieval Studies Faculty and Staff


Linguistics

Browne, E. Wayles | Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
Campus Address:  220 Morrill Hall
Contact:  (607) 255-0712 | ewb2@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests: Old Church Slavonic; historical and comparative Slavic philology; South Slavic languages, Polish, Russian and Belarusian, the Balkan language area, Old Church Slavonic, Slavic historical grammar, comparative and contrastive grammar, and pedagogical grammar. In general linguistics: syntax, morphology, and phonology (in particular relative and other subordinate clauses) interrogatives, clitic rules, word order, reflexive verbs, accent rules, etc., usually using Slavic material.

Harbert, Wayne | Professor
Department of Linguistics (Director of Undergraduate Studies)
Campus Address: 210 Morrill Hall
Contact:  (607) 255-8441 | weh2@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests:  Syntactic structures of the Germanic languages (especially the older ones) and the Celtic languages (primarily Welsh and Scottish Gaelic), and what they can tell us about the principles of syntactic organization operating in natural language. Germanic philology (Old Norse and Icelandic, Old and Middle High German, Old English, Old Saxon, Gothic, modern German and Scandinavian languages), Celtic language and philology (especially medieval and modern Welsh).