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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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Tom Grano at NACCL in Ann Arbor

June 15, 2013 Linguistics

Tom presents "Aspect out of control and the finite/nonfinite distinction in Mandarin" to the 25th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics at the University of Michigan.

Shevaun Lewis to Johns Hopkins

June 10, 2013 Linguistics

Shevaun Lewis will soon begin a postdoc in the Language and Cognition Lab at the Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins.

Ewan Dunbar heads to Paris

May 30, 2013 Linguistics

Ewan Dunbar has accepted a post-doc in the Laboratoire de Science Cognitive et Psycholinguistique at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.

Alumni appointment bonanza!

May 28, 2013 Linguistics

Appointments, promotions and awards for Phil Monahan *09, Eri Takahashi *09, Jon Sprouse *07, Lisa Pearl *07, Usama Soltan *06 and Matt Wagers *08.

Yuki to publish in Studia Linguistica

May 28, 2013 Linguistics

Yuki Ito's paper, "Raising to object in wager/assure-class verbs: A PF account of the defective paradigm," has been accepted for publication by Studia Linguistica.

Paul Pietroski in Paris

May 16, 2013 Linguistics

Paul Pietroski will be in Paris for a month-long appointment at the École Normale Supérieure, teaching a seminar entitled "Meanings First" at the Institut Jean Nicod.

Dave Kush to Haskins Lab at Yale

May 15, 2013 Linguistics

Dave Kush begins a post-doc at Yale's Haskins Lab with Julie Van Dyke.

2013-2014 Research And Scholarship Summer Award Recipients

May 13, 2013 American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, English, History, Linguistics, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

ARHU faculty members win prestigious Research and Scholarship Summer Award.

Tom Grano at CUNY

May 11, 2013 Linguistics

Tom Grano presents "Verb meaning, restructuring, and the grammar of complement control" at the CUNY Syntax Supper.

Wing Yee Chow to BCBL

May 10, 2013 Linguistics

Wing-Yee Chow begins a post-doc at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, and Language.