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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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Aaron Doliana on floating in Leipzig

June 21, 2017 Linguistics

Aaron discusses "Wh-quantifier floating in German" at Leipzig, in a meeting of the syntax group at the Institut für Linguistik.

Naomi and Ellen in Santa Barbara

June 17, 2017 Linguistics

The Kavli Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience has lectures by Naomi and Ellen, in its course on Computational Perspectives on Language Prediction in the Brain.

2017-18 Capaa And Rasa Award Recipients

June 05, 2017 College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

ARHU extends congratulations to 24 faculty awardees.

Blogging from the Guatemala Field Station

May 30, 2017 Linguistics

Ütz apetik to the new weblog from our linguists at the Guatemala Field Station. Follow them over the next few weeks of research, collaboration, friendship and adventure.

Bon voyage to Marylanders in Guatemala

May 26, 2017 Linguistics

It's off to the Guatemala Field Station for Anouk Dieuleveut, Michaela Socolof, Nancy Clarke, Paulina Lyskawa, Rodrigo Ranero and Ted Levin, along with Maria Polinsky and Omer Preminger.

Suyoung in Tokyo for WAFL13

May 26, 2017 Linguistics

Suyoung Bae presents "The relaxation of the radical reconstruction in Korean long-distance scrambling" at the 13th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics, held this year in Toyko, Japan.

Howard in Guangzhou, China

May 19, 2017 Linguistics

Howard Lasnik is at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, discussing "Clauses, Quasi-Clauses, and Phases: A Surprising Generalization and a Speculation" at a colloquium talk, and then giving a 3 day mini-course at South China Normal University.

2017-18 Flagship Fellowships

May 18, 2017 American Studies, Art History and Archaeology, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Nine ARHU graduate students receive 2017-18 Flagship Fellowships.

Masha directs 10th Heritage Language Institute

May 18, 2017 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky leads the 10th Heritage Language Research Institute in Urbana-Champaign.

Masha lecturing as first Quirk Fellow

May 16, 2017 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky is at Queen Mary University of London, giving three days of lectures as the first Randolph Quirk Fellow, an honor due to a generous donation from The Lord Quirk.