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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Masha, Annemarie and Sigwan in Tblisi teaching syntax and semantics

August 29, 2018 Linguistics

The South Caucasian Chalk Circle hosts its second annual Summer School in linguistics, at Ilia State University in Tblisi, codirected by Maria Polinsky and Léa Nash.

Welcome to Thomas Schatz

August 28, 2018 Linguistics

Say Hello to Thomas Schatz, our second new postdoc.

Welcome Class of 2023!

August 26, 2018 Linguistics

A warm greeting to Cassidy Henry from UCLA, Masato Nakamura from the University of Tokyo, and Craig Thorburn from MIT, our newest class of PhD students, now a mere half decade from alumni status!

Remembering Akira

August 23, 2018 Linguistics

We mourn the loss of alumnus Akira Omaki *10, who passed away on August 6th 2018, following complications from lymphoma.

Dongwoo to Korea National Open University

August 20, 2018 Linguistics

2017 alum Dongwoo Park is now Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at Korea National Open University.

Naomi wins NIH grant with Jan

August 19, 2018 Linguistics

NIH has awarded funding to Naomi Feldman's "Optimizing Input for Language Interventions" project, with co-principal Patrick Shafto from Rutgers and co-investigator Jan Edwards from our own HESP.

Ellen wins NSF grant

August 19, 2018 Linguistics

NSF awards support ot Ellen Lau's project on "Sustained Activity Mechanisms for Neurally Encoding Linguistic Structure."

Welcome new Baggetts and RAs

August 14, 2018 Linguistics

Say Hello to our four new Baggetts and RAs: Anissa, Aura, Lalitha, and Zach.

Masha directs student project on polysynthetic languages

August 13, 2018 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky, together with Judith Klavans, is directing three undergraduate students in linguistics and computer science, through her NSF grant on "Cleaning, Organizing, and Uniting Linguistic Databases."

Aaron White wins NSF support

August 10, 2018 Linguistics

NSF supports MegaAttitude Project by 2015 alum Aaron White's with Kyle Rawlins and Ben Van Durme from Johns Hopkins.