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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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Colin Phillips and Matt Wagers elected as AAAS Fellows

November 24, 2020 Linguistics

National recognition for important contributions to STEM disciplines

Masha at Cambridge and Toronto

November 18, 2020 Linguistics

Colloquium talks on puzzles of gender agreement and morphological deficits in heritage grammars

Alum Jeff Green in Glossa with Mike McCourt, Ellen and Alexander

November 17, 2020 Linguistics, Philosophy

Is the online comprehension of adjunct control any different from that of anaphora with audible pronouns?

Imane at student conference in Germany

November 16, 2020 Linguistics

On subject relative clauses in the speech of Arabic-dominant heritage speakers of Tashelhiyt Berber

Maša recognized by Slavic Linguistics Society

November 12, 2020 Linguistics

Honorable Mention to be announced at next meeting in Sapporo

Maryland Today

Museum of language and literacy opens in DC

October 28, 2020 Linguistics

UMD faculty help shape, to collaborate with new D.C. nonprofit focused on impact of language.

Luisa in Journal of Pidgins and Creole Languages

October 08, 2020 Linguistics

Language contact can lead to more transparent relations between form and meaning.

Maryland Today

Locally Run Marathon Becomes Globally Watched Experience

October 07, 2020 Linguistics

Professor’s virtual run brings together community for BBC appearance.

Ellen talking at Northwestern

October 06, 2020 Linguistics

Towards a neural model of working memory representations in language comprehension

Jéssica on tense and modality at Romance semantics conference

September 21, 2020 Linguistics

"John might miss his appointment." What makes this a claim about the future?