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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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And Colin will in Stuttgart on March 8

March 04, 2018 Linguistics

Colin gives an invited talk at a workshop on ellipsis an memory retrieval at the 40th annual meeting of the German Linguistic Society.

Norbert on Islands in Stuttgart

March 01, 2018 Linguistics

At a workshop within DGfS, Norbert Hornstein asks "Questions regarding a minimalist theory of islands," as an invited speaker on the theme of Referential and relational approaches to syntactic asymmetries.

William to professorship at South Carolina

February 27, 2018 Linguistics

Former postdoc William Matchin becomes Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of South Carolina.

Jeff making the most of Paris

February 24, 2018 Linguistics

Jeffrey Lidz is “Specifying quantifier meanings" as an invited speaker at the Workshop on Co-Distributivity in Paris, France.

Rachel on knowledge in Philosophy Compass

February 22, 2018 Linguistics

"Young children's conceptions of knowledge," from 2017 alum Rachel Dudley, is now out in Philosophy Compass.

Kate in Frontiers on desire reports

February 19, 2018 Linguistics

"Three-Year-Olds' Understanding of Desire Reports Is Robust to Conflict," concludes Kaitlyn Harrigan in a paper with Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz now out in Frontiers in Psychology.

Terje named Young Outstanding Researcher

February 17, 2018 Linguistics

The Research Council of Norway names 2012 alum Terje Lohndal one of three Young Outstanding Researchers for 2018, in the category of Humanities and Social Science.

Valentine in Germany, on methods in semantics

February 08, 2018 Linguistics

In Tübingen, Valentine Hacquard presents "Learning what ‘must’ and ‘can’ must and can mean," an invited talk at Linguistic Evidence.

Colin, Lara and Masha at AAAS in Texas