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 at FAMLi5 in Antigua Guatemala

August 06, 2018 Linguistics

"Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics" has work by Rodrigo, Paulina, Masha, former postdoc Theodore Levin, and several other members of the Guatemala Field Station, including Executive Director Pedro Mateo Pedro.

White, Hacquard & Lidz on categorization of complement clauses in acquisition

August 04, 2018 Linguistics

Now out in a volume on Semantics in Language Acquisition, "Main clause syntax in the acquisition of propositional attitude verbs" from 2015 alum Aaron Steven White, with Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz.

Comparative Illusions in Journal of Semantics

August 04, 2018 Linguistics

Now out, "The Anatomy of a Comparative Illusion" by Alexis Wellwood, 2014 alum and current Assistant Professor of Philosophy at USC, along with USC colleague and 2008 UMD visitor Roumyana Pancheva, former advisor Valentine Hacquard, and Colin Phillips.

Kasia in Wisconsin at CogSci

July 19, 2018 Linguistics

Kasia Hitczenko has a talk at CogSci in Madison, "How to use context to disambiguate overlapping categories: The test case of Japanese vowel length," with co-authors Reiko Mazuka, Micha Elsner and Naomi Feldman.

Omer and Paulina teaching in St Petersburg

July 14, 2018 Linguistics

The NY-St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition, and Culture has a three-week Introduction to Syntax from Omer Preminger, with teaching assistant Paulina Lyskawa.

Philip part of major IARPA grant

July 11, 2018 Linguistics

Philip Resnik is part of Maryland's team on a multi-institutional IARPA grant to develop systems for multi-lingual translation, information retrieval and summarization systems that is effective even with 'low resource' languages.

Naomi keynotes at MathPsych 51

July 10, 2018 Linguistics

The Society for Mathematical Psychology has Naomi Feldman giving a keynote address at its 51st Annual Meeting.

LSC Faculty Join Team Awarded $14.4M to Develop Innovative Language Technologies

July 08, 2018 Maryland Language Science Center, Linguistics

Language Science Center faculty - Philip Resnik (Linguistics, UMIACS), Marine Carpuat (Computer Science, UMIACS), and Hal Daume (Computer Science, UMIACS) - join Douglas Oard (iSchool) on a four-year $14.4M Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Ac

Grano and Lasnik in Linguistic Inquiry

July 05, 2018 Linguistics

Now in LI from former postoc Tom Grano and Howard Lasnik, "How to neutralize a finite clause boundary: Phase theory and the grammar of bound pronouns."

Adam in Italy on "or" and implicature

July 04, 2018 Linguistics

"Scalar implicature variability in adults and children: The case of 'or'", by a Michigan State crew that includes Adam Liter, is at a workshop on Scalar Implicatures: Formal and Experimental Exploration.