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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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.

Brad Larson at FASL 21 in Indiana

May 07, 2012 Linguistics

Brad Larson presents "Not-so-across-the-board-movement in Macedonian" at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics in Bloomington, Indiana,

Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships Announced

May 04, 2012 American Studies, Art History and Archaeology, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Spanish and Portuguese

Twelve ARHU doctoral students receive 2012-2013 Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships.Congratulations to ARHU’s Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellows!

Annie Gagliardi awarded Post-Doc Fellowship

May 02, 2012 Linguistics

Annie Gagliardi has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the NSF/NEH Documenting Endangered Languages Fund.

Mayfest 2012!

May 01, 2012 Linguistics

May 4-5, the department hosts Mayfest 2012, "The Role of Computational Models in Linguistic Theory".

Terje Lohndal to faculty in Trondheim

April 29, 2012 Linguistics

Terje Lohndal has accepted a position as Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.

Naomi and Rochelle win ADVANCE grant

April 27, 2012 Linguistics

Naomi Feldman and Rochelle Newman havewon a UMD ADVANCE seed grant for a project titled "Children's real time processing of words and sounds."

Linguists blaze at local footrace

April 21, 2012 Linguistics

Congratulations to Annie, Colin, Jeff, Rachel, Tess, and Yakov, who all ran well in the Azalea Classic in University Park