Fields of Study

The following pages, arranged by language, provide useful links to the study of that language ( or areal grouping), and will contain the names of members who can serve as experts in questions related to that language and its texts:

LANGUAGES

GERMANIC GROUP:

Old English

Middle English/Older Scots

Old Frisian

Old Low Franconian

Middle Dutch

Old Saxon

Middle Low German

Old High German

Middle High German

Medieval Yiddish

Old Norse

Old Swedish/Old Gutnish

Old Danish

ROMANCE GROUP:

Medieval Latin

Old French

Middle French

Medieval Occitan

Old Spanish

Medieval Catalan

Medieval Portuguese

Mozarabic

Medieval Ladino

Old Italian

Medieval Rhaeto-Romance

Medieval Daco-/Dalmato-Romance

SLAVIC GROUP:

Old Church Slavonic

Old Serbian/Croatian

Medieval Polish

Medieval Czech/Slovak

Medieval Sorbian/Wendish/Polabian

Old Russian

Middle Russian

Middle Ukranian

HELLENIC GROUP

Byzantine Greek

ARMENIAN GROUP

Medieval Armenian

OTHER MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN LANGUAGES:

Finno-Ugric Family

Kartvelian Family

Northwest Caucasian Family

Northeast Caucasian Family

Baltic Group

Basque

AFRO-ASIATIC FAMILY

Medieval Hebrew

Medieval Arabic

Medieval Ethiopic

Medieval Coptic

EASTERN INDO-EUROPEAN GROUPS

Medieval Iranic Languages

Medieval Indic Languages

Tocharian A & B

OTHER MEDIEVAL ASIAN LANGUAGES

Medieval Chinese

Medieval Tibetan

Medieval Turkic Languages

Medieval Mongolian

Medieval Thai

Medieval Khmer

Medieval Korean

Medieval Japanese

OTHER MEDIEVAL AFRICAN LANGUAGES

MEDIEVAL LANGUAGES OF THE AMERICAS

Classical Mayan

Classical Nahuatl

Classical Quechua

BRANCHES OF LINGUISTICS

Phonology and Orthography

Morphology

Syntax

Discourse/Pragmatics

Semantics

Text Linguistics/Stylistics

Linguistic Change

Dialectology/Sociolinguistics

Multilingualism/Language Choice

Corpus Linguistics

The Teaching of Medieval Languages