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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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Calling All Storytelling Terps!

May 20, 2025 American Studies, Art, Art History and Archaeology, Classics, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

UMD story slam invites pitches for competition with cash prizes.

Terps in SALT

May 15, 2025 Linguistics

Modals, conditionals, disjunctions, presuppositions and disagreements.

Mayfest 2025

May 08, 2025 Linguistics

Constraints on meaning.

Fedya at CLS 61

May 06, 2025 Linguistics

Chicago-style deep-dish bare-duals.

Maša to Georgetown

April 30, 2025 Linguistics

Postdoctoral associate in syntax.
Maryland Today

Discovering a ‘Passion for Research’

April 23, 2025 Linguistics

Event spotlights, celebrates work of 500 undergrads.

Fedya and Mal in Seattle for WCCFL

April 23, 2025 Linguistics

On duals and partitives at the 43rd WCCFL.

Xinchi and Ellen in Visual Cognition

April 12, 2025 Linguistics

Same set of pointers for biological and non-biological objects.

Linguistics Professor Jeffrey Lidz Named AAAS Fellow

March 27, 2025 College of Arts and Humanities, Linguistics

Honor recognizes his distinguished contributions to linguistics and language science.