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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Kate at UMass

September 15, 2025 Linguistics

The difference between phonological and phonetic operations.

Valentine in Developmental Psychology

September 09, 2025 Linguistics, Philosophy

On the challenge of learning what "have to" means.

Maryland at SNL in DC

September 08, 2025 Linguistics

Six posters from Ellen and her students.

Maryland Today

UMD Researchers Will Use AI to Help Boost HPV Vaccine Confidence

September 08, 2025 Communication, Linguistics

New $2.8M NIH grant funds interdisciplinary chatbot project with UMB.

Mal in Frankfurt for SuB 30

September 02, 2025 Linguistics

On future/epistemic ambiguities in Gujarati.

Masha co-edits Handbook of Comparative Syntax

August 26, 2025 Linguistics

31 pieces on the study of syntactic variety.

Jack to Hong Kong

August 23, 2025 Linguistics

Two year postdoc at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Welcome Penelope Daniel!

August 18, 2025 Linguistics

New postdoc in syntax.

Say hello to the Class of 2030!

August 03, 2025 Linguistics

Welcome Alba, Andrés and Annika, Jackson, Phil and Victor.

Luisa to Nice after autumn in Aosta

July 16, 2025 Linguistics

Continuing her research on the syntax of Franco-Provençal languages.