Department news

Linguistics

Mayfest 2025

Constraints on meaning.

October 26, 2024 Linguistics

Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar

Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.

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.

August 09, 2021 Linguistics

New jobs for alumni

New positions and homecomings for several recent graduates.

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Gagliaridi and Lidz to appear in Language

September 22, 2013 Linguistics

"Statistical Insensitivity in the Acquisition of Tsez Noun Classes," by Annie Gagliardi *12 and Jeff Lidz, has been accepted for publication in Language.

Alexander at Kenmoor Middle School

September 18, 2013 Linguistics

Alexander talks about Russell on descriptions with the Philosophy Club at Kenmoor Middle School in Landover Maryland.

Alexis, Valentine honored at Convocation

September 17, 2013 Linguistics

The College of Arts and Humanities honors Alexis Wellwood with the Student Service Award at its Annual Faculty & Staff Convocation.

Paul on concepts in Raleigh

September 15, 2013 Linguistics

Paul Pietroski is an invited speaker at a conference on Concepts hosted by the Logic and Cognitive Science Initiative at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

Welcome to new visitors

September 12, 2013 Linguistics

Welcome to two new visitors: Anamaria Bentea and Regine Lai.

Tom Grano on the Dalmatian Coast

September 10, 2013 Linguistics

Tom Grano is at the University of Split in Croatia, to talk about "Restructuring at the syntax-semantics interface."

Paul Pietroski at Princeton

September 06, 2013 Linguistics

Paul shares keynote speaker honors with Barbara Partee at "Semantics: Mathematics or Psychology?" at Princeton University.

Tom and Aaron at SuB in Basque Country

September 04, 2013 Linguistics

Tom and Aaron present their poster "An experimental investigation of partial control" at Sinn und Bedeutung 18 in Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Welcome new graduate students!

August 30, 2013 Linguistics

We are delighted to welcome six new members to our PhD program: Lara Ehrenhofer (Oxford), Allyson Ettinger (Brandeis), Jeff Green (Utah), Anton Malko (St. Petersburg), Chris Neufeld (Toronto), and Zach Stone (NYU).

Welcome to new Baggetts and RAs

August 26, 2013 Linguistics

A warm welcome two new Baggett Scholars, Aleksandra Fazlipour (Rochester) and Natalia Lapinskaya (Toronto), as well as Ilia Kurenkov (UMass Amherst), Anna Bonnet (Maryland) and Caitlin Richter (Edinburgh), who will be RAs for Colin, Ellen and Naomi.