Department news

Mayfest 2025

Constraints on meaning.

October 26, 2024 Linguistics

Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar

Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.

July 01, 2024 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Fall 2024 Leadership Appointments

Dean Stephanie Shonekan announces new leadership appointments.

June 30, 2024 Linguistics

New Chair

Jeff Lidz takes the helm.

May 21, 2023 Linguistics

Premvanti Patel featured in Washington Post

Linguistics major highlighted in relation to computer science and humanities.

February 16, 2023 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Linguistics, American Studies, Communication, Philosophy, School of Music, English, History, National Foreign Language Center

ARHU Faculty Awarded Grand Challenges Grants

The grants fund $30 million to UMD faculty focused on groundbreaking, impactful research that will shape the future of our community, state, nation and world.

February 16, 2022 Linguistics

NSF support for Hanna and Yu'an

Dissertation improvement grants on comprehension illusions and the acquisition of question marking.

November 15, 2021 Linguistics

Researcher Studies What’s Behind Baby Talk

A new study by linguistics Professor Jeffrey Lidz shows children grasp syntax earlier than you might think.

October 08, 2021 Linguistics, Maryland Language Science Center

NSF Grant Funds Research at Planet Word Museum

$440K award will put scholars on D.C. site, support new course for students to learn to conduct studies in real-world settings.

October 04, 2021 Linguistics

Laurel in PNAS with Jeff

Evidence that 18-month olds already represent filler-gap dependencies.

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Terrapins at the 50th BUCLD

November 03, 2025 Linguistics

On modals, wh-movement, crossover, definites, aspect, attitudes and more.

LL&D Best Paper Award for Laurel, Tyler, Alexander and Jeff

October 29, 2025 Linguistics

Infants do not expect sentences to match thoughts in their structure.

Seven LING students awarded LSC grants

October 28, 2025 Linguistics

Support for student research in semantics, phonology, syntax, computation, acquisition, neuro- and psycholinguistics.

Norbert wins Bloomfield Book Award

October 27, 2025 Linguistics

LSA honors "The Merge Hypothesis".

Semanticists in Tarrytown

October 22, 2025 Linguistics, Philosophy

Maryland crew at PhLiP 10.

Mal in NYC for Syntax Brown Bag

October 21, 2025 Linguistics

How extraposition and deletion explain quantified partitives.

ARHU 2025 Service Award Winners Announced

October 16, 2025 American Studies, Art History and Archaeology, College of Arts and Humanities, English, Linguistics, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Six exceptional members of the ARHU community received an annual service award.

Shi and Shah at NELS

October 10, 2025 Linguistics

Terps traveling up 95 to someplace or other.