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Mayfest 2024

April 17, 2024 Linguistics

A teacher on the left, smiling at the camera, back to the blackboard, while university students in the background gaze awkwardly around.

The science of linguistic diversity.

This year, 2024, our Mayfest celebrates Maria (Masha) Polinsky.  "The Science of Linguistic Diversity" will bring together over a dozen syntacticians and semanticists who have worked closely with Masha on fieldwork, heritage languages, cross-linguistic diversity, and experimental psycholinguistics: Maša Bešlin, Irina Burukina,  Lauren Clemens, Jessica Coon, Zuzanna Fuchs, Vera Gribanova, Aron Hirsch, Idan Landau, Ellen Lau, Ora Matushansky, Polina Pleshak, Eric Potsdam, Rodrigo Ranero, Gregory Scontras, Juan Uriagereka, and Ming Xiang. It will also feature two round table discussions on "Experimental work and fieldwork on understudied and heritage languages" and "The Mayan-Austronesian Connection." The meeting will be held on the College Park campus on May 3-4, 2024. Information about our speakers and schedule is available at the conference website.