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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Anouk and Hisao virtually in Iceland for GALANA 9

May 05, 2021 Linguistics

On children's understanding of modal force and additive presuppositions.

Paulina and Rodrigo giving invited talk at Santa Cruz Working Group

May 03, 2021 Linguistics

On sibilant harmony in Santiago Tz'utujil.

Aaron at CLS

April 30, 2021 Linguistics

Which all facts about "alles"-stranding in German have a syntactic explanation?

Philip wins Amazon Research Award

April 28, 2021 Linguistics

Support for research on topic modeling in relation to COVID-19.

Polina at Moscow conference on minority languages

April 23, 2021 Linguistics

Syntactic size is what explains the Moksha 'declensions'.

Jeff at Brazilian Linguistics Association

April 23, 2021 Linguistics

Inside the Language Acquisition Device.

Naomi named Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year

April 20, 2021 Linguistics

Recognized for exceptional contributions to graduate students.

Dan on rising declaratives in LSA Proceedings

April 19, 2021 Linguistics

Two uses and one meaning for rising declaratives.

Paulina to postdoc in Tromsø

April 15, 2021 Linguistics

Joining a project on "Experimental approaches to syntactic optionality".

Jeff Lidz and Laurel Perkins chair symposium at Society for Research in Child Development

April 09, 2021 Linguistics

Infant syntax above the word level.