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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Mina speaking at Michigan State

April 19, 2018 Linguistics

Mina Hirzel is a special alumni speaker at the Michigan State Undergraduate Linguistics Conference, "Local and long distance dependencies in 16 to 20 month-olds."

Terps in LA at WCCFL

April 12, 2018 Linguistics

WCCFL 36 has a poster from Gesoel Mendes plus two from philosophy student Quinn Harr, one co-authored with Alexander Williams

Jeff, Julie at UU for EMLAR XIV

April 09, 2018 Linguistics

Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research at Utrecht has a keynote by Jeffrey Lidz, "2nd year syntax," and a talk by alum Juliana Gerard, "Errors, predictions, and continuity in grammar and processing."

Maryland on "Syntactic Structures"

April 08, 2018 Linguistics

"Syntactic Structures after 60 years" is now out, including essays by Howard, Norbert Jeff, Omer, Paul, Jon Sprouse *07 and Chomsky himself, accompanying a reprint of his 1957 classic.

Max and Masha a' GLOW in Pest

April 06, 2018 Linguistics

GLOW41 has a talk and a poster by Maxime Papillon, as well as a symposium organized by Maria Polinsky with Marcel den Dikken, on "Predication in relation to propositions and properties."

Sigwan at WSCLA 23 in Ottawa

April 06, 2018 Linguistics

Sigwan Thivierge talks at the 23rd Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas, on the syntax of roots in Nishnaabemwin.

Jackie and Hanna recognized by NSF

April 04, 2018 Linguistics

Jackie Nelligan wins a NSF-GRF "Surprisal and dependency length in morphologically rich languages", and Hanna Muller earns Honorable Mention for "Negative polarity illusions and the temporal dynamics of sentence comprehension."

Fridtjof Nansen Award to Terje Lohndal

April 01, 2018 Linguistics

The Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters has granted its Fridtjof Nansen award for researchers under 40 to 2010 alum Terje Lohndal.

Naho to faculty at Tokyo University of Science

March 28, 2018 Linguistics

2015 alum Naho Orita is to be Lecturer at Tokyo University of Science.

Colin in Amherst for colloquium

March 27, 2018 Linguistics

Colin Phillips is at UMass giving their colloquium talk, on "Speaking, understanding, and grammar."