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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Maryland in Salt Lake City for LSA

December 22, 2017 Linguistics

UMD fields three posters at the LSA, two by Jeffrey Green, one by Paulina Lyskawa and Rodrigo Ranero, with former postdoc Theodore Levin.

Masha joins project on heritage languages

December 21, 2017 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky joins a 3-year project on Grammatical Dynamics in Language Contact, led by Heike Wiese at the University of Potsdam and funded by the German Research Foundation, as one of two Mercator Fellow visiting professors.

Mod Squad in Amsterdam

December 19, 2017 Linguistics

At the Amsterdam Colloquium, Annemarie van Dooren and Anouk Dieuleveut present "Learning what ‘must’ and ‘can’ must and can mean," their joint work with Valentine and NYU's Ailis Cournane.

Happy Birthday Holly Green!

December 14, 2017 Linguistics

Allison and Jeffrey Green welcome their daughter Holly, born on the evening of December 14, and joining her brother August in good health.

Yu'an, Aaron, Rodrigo and Dongwoo in GLOW

December 06, 2017 Linguistics

Now available, the Proceedings of GLOW XI in Asia, featuring papers by Yu'an, Aaron, Rodrigo and 2017 alumnus Dongwoo Park.

Valentine at UMass colloquium

December 04, 2017 Linguistics

Valentine Hacquard gives the colloquium talk at UMass Linguistics, on how children the meanings of modals, such as "must" or "might".

Omer in Brussels

November 28, 2017 Linguistics

Omer Preminger is at the 10th Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics, "Assessing the morphosemantic program for phi-features."

Terps in Proceedings of NELS 47

November 27, 2017 Linguistics

Check out papers by Yu'an, Annemarie, Jeff Green, Alexander, and former postdoc Ted Levin, in the Proceedings of NELS 47.

Zoe on number retrieval cues in the Journal of Memory and Language

November 20, 2017 Linguistics

Now out from Zoe Schlueter, with Alexander Williams and Ellen Lau, "Exploring the abstractness of number retrieval cues in the computation of subject-verb agreement in comprehension," in the Journal of Memory and Language.

Phoebe, plus Ellen and Chia-Hsuan, in Language, Cognition & Neuroscience

November 16, 2017 Linguistics

Two new articles, one from Ellen Lau and Chia-Hsuan Liao, the other from Phoebe Gaston with NYU's Alec Marantz, in Language, Cognition & Neuroscience.