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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.
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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Linguists run octuple marathon in 26.8 hours!

September 22, 2012 Linguistics

Hail to a team of 12 Maryland linguists and their support crew, who ran the 200-mile Ragnar Relay.

Tonia Bleam in Paris at TAG+11

September 20, 2012 Linguistics

Tonia presents "Delayed Tree- Locality, Set-locality, and Clitic Climbing" at the 11th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms in Paris.

Allison at SPR in New Orleans

September 18, 2012 Linguistics

New RA Allison Fogel presents "Processing Emotion and Taboo in Native vs. Second Language" at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Psychophysiological Research in New Orleans.

Terje Lohndal wins honor in Norway

September 17, 2012 Linguistics

Terje Lohndal *12 has been named one of the 10 most outstanding Norwegian researchers below 40.

Welcome to new postdoc Tom Grano

September 05, 2012 Linguistics

Welcome to Tom Grano, who joins us after receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago with a dissertation titled "Control and restructuring at the syntax-semantics interface".

Welcome new Baggetts, RAs, and visitors

September 05, 2012 Linguistics

We are happy to welcome two new Baggett Fellows, Lawrence Chen (U. British Columbia) and Josh Falk (Stanford), as well as new RAs Glynis MacMillan (UMass Amherst) and Allison Fogel (Tufts U.), and MEG Lab manager Elizabeth Nguyen (Reed).

Welcome to six new graduate students

September 05, 2012 Linguistics

We are delighted to welcome six new members to our graduate program: Rachel Dudley (NYU), Peter Enns (UMD), Michael Fetters (UMD), Chris Heffner (MSU), Dongwoo Park (Seoul National) and Zoe Schlueter (York, Edinburgh).

Jeff Lidz teaching at ENS in Paris

September 04, 2012 Linguistics

Jeff Lidz teaches a course, "Inside the LAD," at the École d'Automne de Linguistique, sponsored by the Department of Cognitive Studies at the École Normale Superieure, Paris.

Jon Sprouse wins LSA Early Career Award

August 30, 2012 Linguistics

Alumnus Jon Sprouse, *07 has been awarded the 2013 Early Career Award by the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society America.

Alexis at Sinn und Bedeutung

August 27, 2012 Linguistics

Alexis Wellwood presents "Back to basics: *more* is always *much-er*" at the 17th annual Sinn und Bedeutung conference.