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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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Philip Resnik talks about new work in NLP

November 14, 2011 Linguistics

Philip Resnik was recently in California to give the keynote talk at the 2011 Sentiment Analysis Symposium, and to speak to the machine translation group at Google Research about his work on crowdsourcing and translation.

Howard Lasnik and Brad Larson at Islands conference

November 07, 2011 Linguistics

Howard Lasnik is the invited speaker at "Islands in Contemporary Syntactic Theory," at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Maryland linguists at BUCLD

October 31, 2011 Linguistics

Representing UMD on Nov. 4-6 at the B.U. Conference on Language Development are Annie, Angela, Megan, Jeff, and undergrad major Michael Fetters/

Dustin Chacón to present at CUNY Syntax Supper

October 24, 2011 Linguistics

Dustin Chacón will be presenting his work on head movement in the Bangla DP at the CUNY Syntax Supper on November 1st.

Colin Phillips at Linguistics Association of Portugal

October 19, 2011 Linguistics

Colin Phillips will be the keynote speaker at the Linguistics Association of Portugal conference in Lisbon.

Valentine Hacquard talk at Johns Hopkins

October 18, 2011 Linguistics

Valentine Hacquard presents "Understanding Desire and Belief Reports" at Johns Hopkins.

Colin Phillips to give Distinguished Scholar-Teacher lecture

October 13, 2011 Linguistics

Colin Phillips is giving a talk in the Distinguished Scholar-Teacher lecture series, "Linguistic Illusions: Where you see them, where you don't".

Terje Lohndal colloquium talk at U Arizona

October 10, 2011 Linguistics

Terje Lohndal gives a linguistics colloquium talk at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Michaël Gagnon and Alexis Wellwood paper in SALT proceedings

October 07, 2011 Linguistics

Michaël Gagnon and Alexis Wellwood have a paper published in the Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 21, entitled "Distributivity and modality: where 'each' may go, 'every' can't follow".

Alexis Wellwood and Valentine Hacquard paper to appear in Journal of Semantics

October 05, 2011 Linguistics

Alexis Wellwood, Valentine Hacquard and Roumyana Pancheva have a paper appearing in the Journal of Semantics., "Measuring and Comparing Individuals and Events."