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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Sigwan and Omer at Arizona WCCFL

April 03, 2021 Linguistics

On the syntactic identity of roots, and the domain of special meanings.

Ellen speaking at 50th anniversary of MPI Psycholinguistics

April 03, 2021 Linguistics

On the neurobiology of semantics and its relation to syntax.

Jeff in Cognition on Principle C

April 02, 2021 Linguistics

Success in Principle C is predicted by vocabulary.

Dan Goodhue at Rutgers colloquium

March 25, 2021 Linguistics

He's giving a unified analysis of assertive and inquisitive rising declaratives?

Polina, Paulina, and Rodrigo in LSA Proceedings

March 22, 2021 Linguistics

On sibilant harmony in Santiago Tz'utujil and caseless NPs in Moksha.

Colin and Bill online with the Brazilian Linguistics Association

March 21, 2021 Linguistics

Lecture plus discussion led by a past advisee.

Second online K'iche' course

March 19, 2021 Linguistics

UMD Mayan Winter Language school offers an immersive course on K'iche'.

Sigwan and Polina at PLC45

March 08, 2021 Linguistics

On case and agreement, virtually in Philadelphia.

Yu'an and Tyler in Proceedings of SALT 30

March 03, 2021 Linguistics, Philosophy

Experimental evidence for restricted quantification, with Conservativity as a consequence.

Marylanders at Penn's virtual CUNY

February 22, 2021 Linguistics

Seven presentations on language acquisition and processing, plus more from alumni.