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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White, Hacquard and Lidz in Cognitive Science

May 15, 2018 Linguistics

Out in Cognitive Science, "Semantic information and the syntax of propositional attitude verbs," from 2015 alum Aaron White with Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz.

Masha on Tongan at AFLA in Taiwan

May 08, 2018 Linguistics

The 25th Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, in Taipe, has invited talks from Maria Polinsky and Matt Wagers *08.

Angela hired by Alexis for NSF project

May 08, 2018 Linguistics

Angela Xiaoxue He *15 heads to USC as a postdoc on 2014 alum Alexis Wellwood's NSF-supported project, "Individuating and comparing objects and events."

Ted, Paulina & Rodrigo in England at CamCoS7

May 07, 2018 Linguistics

The Cambridge Comparative Syntax conference has "Microvariation in the realization of Eastern Mayan number agreement" by Paulina Lyskawa and Rodrigo Ranero, with former postdoc Ted Levin.

Tyler on quantifiers at Johns Hopkins

May 06, 2018 Linguistics

Tyler Knowlton asks "Are natural language quantifiers first- or second-order?," in a talk at the Workshop on The Development of Set and Quantifier Representations at Johns Hopkins.

Max in Montreal for NAPhCX

May 05, 2018 Linguistics

Maxime Papillon is at Concordia for the 10th North American Phonology Conference, talking about "Match-Extend Serialization for Reduplication in Multiprecedence Phonology."

Cassidy Henry wins DoD Scholarship

April 30, 2018 Linguistics

Incoming PhD student Cassidy Henry wins a SMART Scholarship from the US Department of Defense.

Hanna, Hisao & Sigwan at ECO-5 in Amherst

April 23, 2018 Linguistics

This year's East Coast 5 meeting has work by Hanna Muller, Hisao Kurokami and Sigwan Thivierge.

Hacquard and Green with alums at 54th CLS

April 21, 2018 Linguistics

CLS has an invited talk by Valentine, plus a talk and a poster by Jeff Green, the former representing joint work with Michael McCourt, Ellen and Alexander.

Masha at Georgetown Morphosyntax Workshop

April 20, 2018 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky asks "How do I know I am in the right field?" at the Georgetown Morphosyntax Workshop.