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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Terps take Manhattan with SCiL

December 19, 2018 Linguistics

The 2nd meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics has posters, tutorials and panel discussions led by Maryland students and alums.

Masha in Hong Kong

December 12, 2018 Linguistics

The keynote address at the Symposium on Childhood Bilingualism and Heritage Language Acquisition in Hong Kong is by Maria Polinsky, who will give an overview of Heritage Languages and Heritage Linguistics: Present and Future.

Nick in JEAL on control and restructuring

December 04, 2018 Linguistics

Nick Huang's "Control complements in Mandarin Chinese" is now out in the Journal of East Asian Linguistics.

Masha in Irvine on bilinguals

December 01, 2018 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky argues at UC Irvine's colloquium, that "It's still about grammar: Cascading structural reorganization in bilinguals."

World gets Semantics without Truth Values

November 30, 2018 Linguistics

Now out from Emeritus Professor Paul Pietroski, "Conjoining Meanings: Semantics without Truth Values."

Jeff and Laurel on early representations

November 29, 2018 Linguistics

Now out in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, "The importance of input representations" from Jeffrey Lidz and Laurel Perkins.

Masha on exceptives

November 16, 2018 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky gives a talk in Moscow on cross-linguistic differences among exceptive constructions, such as "Все, кроме Маши, засмеялись" ('Everyone but Masha laughed'), with some but not all being derived through clausal ellipsis.

Masha in Moscow for Thanksgiving

November 15, 2018 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky talks at the Winter Neurolinguistics School, sponsored by the Center for Language and Brain at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow.

Kasia flips CogSci to double blind review

November 13, 2018 Linguistics

Kasia Hitczenko has convinced the Cognitive Science Society to shift from single-blind to double-blind review, through a well-argued letter to its president, emerging from our Bias in Linguistics group.

Three Graduate Students Receive Maryland Language Science Center's 2018 Student Leadership and Service Award

November 02, 2018 Linguistics, Maryland Language Science Center

At this year’s Language Science Day on October 5, 2018, two graduate students and one recent graduate were the first recipients of the Language Science Center 2018 Student Leadership and Service Award, in recognition of their exceptional contributio