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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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Luisa talking at Oxford celebration of Rizzi

November 18, 2022 Linguistics

On wh-words in Valdôtain Patois, in honor of Rizzi 1997

Maša awarded by Slavic Linguistics Society

November 14, 2022 Linguistics

In recognition for her work on the syntax of Serbo-Croatian.

Ellen on octopuses and sharks at NYU

November 10, 2022 Linguistics

Squeezing sentence understanding into hippocampal memory.

Philip MPowered

November 08, 2022 Linguistics

Awarded by UMCP and UMBC to foster innovation in service of the state.

Say Hello to Marta Ponciano Lázaro

November 08, 2022 Linguistics

Visiting us from the University of the Basque Country.

Maryland Today

Six New MPower Professors Announced

November 07, 2022 Linguistics

Professor of Linguistics Philip S. Resnik awarded $150K to pursue collaborative research.

Maryland Today

19 Seniors Honored as Merrill Presidential Scholars

November 04, 2022 Communication, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Linguistics

Program recognizes stellar students along with teacher, faculty mentors.

Two new publications from Polina

November 02, 2022 Linguistics

On dative case and binominal lexemes in Uralic languages.

Maryland alums respond to stigmatization of vocal fry

November 01, 2022 Linguistics

Riposte by Matt Winn and Alayo Tripp to sexist critique of vocal fry.

Jeff leads Boston trot of Terrapins

October 30, 2022 Linguistics

MD at BU to hear how UG gives us XR vision.