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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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Hunter and Lidz in Journal of Semantics

August 20, 2012 Linguistics

Tim Hunter and Jeff Lidz's paper "Conservativity and Learnability of Determiners" has been published in the Journal of Semantics.

Hacquard and Wellwood in Semantics and Pragmatics

August 09, 2012 Linguistics

Featured in the new Semantics and Pragmatics, a paper by Valentine and Alexis: "Embedding epistemic modals in English: A corpus-based study."

UMD Linguists at Cogsci 2012

July 16, 2012 Linguistics

Work by Annie Gagliardi, Yakov Kronrod, Alexis Wellwood and Cybelle Smith is to be presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Aaron and Alexis at NASSLLI 2012

June 04, 2012 Linguistics

Alexis Wellwood and Aaron White have both received scholarships to NASSLLI, held June 18-22 at UT Austin.

Chris Dyer to join faculty at Carnegie Mellon!

June 01, 2012 Linguistics

Chris Dyer *10 becomes Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, in the Language Technologies Institute at the School of Computer Science, with a cross-appointment in the Machine Learning Department.

Welcome to six summer research fellows

May 25, 2012 Linguistics

Welcome to Anna Bonnet, Morgan Moyer, Ilanna Newman, Emma Nguyen, Alex Ralph, and Sandy Wan – six undergraduate Linguistics majors who have been awarded funded research positions to work on language science projects this summer.

Tim Hunter to join faculty at Minnesota!

May 23, 2012 Linguistics

Tim Hunter *10 has accepted an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, within its Institute of Linguistics.

Brad Larson at CGSW

May 21, 2012 Linguistics

At the 27th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop at Yale, Brad Larson presents "Wh-dependencies without movement in Germanic."

Maryland at SALT 22 in Chicago

May 09, 2012 Linguistics

At SALT 22, Shevaun Lewis presents "The semantics and pragmatics of belief reports in preschoolers", work with Valentine Hacquard and Jeff Lidz, while Alexander Williams presents "Null Complement Anaphors as definite descriptions."

Kenshi at WAFL 8 in Stuttgart

May 07, 2012 Linguistics

Kenshi Funakoshi presents "Backward control in external possession constructions in Japanese" at the 8th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL) at Universität Stuttgart, Germany.