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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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Valentine talking at UBC

March 09, 2012 Linguistics

Valentine Hacquard is giving talks at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, on modality and the acquisition of attitude verbs.

Maryland linguists at CUNY

March 06, 2012 Linguistics

Brad, Colin, Dan, Dave, Jeff, Shevaun, Sol and Wing Yee represent UMD at the 25th annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.

Dustin Chacón at CNRS, Paris

March 05, 2012 Linguistics

Dustin Chacón presents work with Alexis Wellwood at the Workshop for Languages with and without Articles, at CNRS / Paris 8, in a talk titled "A Superlative Puzzle for Bošković's DP/NP Parameter."

Maryland linguists at GURT

March 02, 2012 Linguistics

Annie Gagliardi, Megan Sutton, Kate Harrigan, Tara Mease and Jeff Lidz present "Now you see it, now you don't: Advantages and pitfalls of in-depth analysis of preferential looking data" at the 2012 Georgetown University Round Table.

Sol and Wing Yee win Katz Young Scholar Award

February 28, 2012 Linguistics

Sol Lago and Wing Yee Chow are joint winners of the Jerrold J. Katz Young Scholar Award for 2012, recognizing the best paper by a young researcher at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.

Videos of Lasnik and Larson on Islands

February 20, 2012 Linguistics

Now online, videos of both Howard Lasnik's and Brad Larson's talks at "Islands in Contemporary Syntactic Theory," at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.

MACSIM at Maryland

February 13, 2012 Linguistics

Maryland hosted the Second Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning, with five presentations by UMD students in linguistics and philosophy.

Welcome to visiting students Romy Lassota and Lyn Tieu!

February 06, 2012 Linguistics

Please greet Romy Lassota and Lyn Tieu who are visiting UMD Linguistics this semester.

Dillon, Dunbar and Idsardi in "Cognitive Science"