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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Kush, Lidz & Phillips on Crossover in Glossa

July 31, 2017 Linguistics

Now out in Glossa, The real-time processing of Strong and Weak Crossover" from 2013 alum Dave Kush with Jeffrey Lidz and Colin Phillips.

Naomi and Chris Dyer, keynotes at CoNLL

July 26, 2017 Linguistics

The ACL's Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning has as its two keynote speakers our own Naomi Feldman, along with 2010 alum Chris Dyer.

Terplisi, Georgia

July 21, 2017 Linguistics

Nancy Clarke, Michaela Socolof, Annemarie van Dooren and Sigwan Thivierge are in Tbilisi with Maria Polinsky, continuing work on Georgian that grew out of the year-long Fieldmethods class that Masha taught with Omer Preminger.

Jeff Green wins Lasnik Award

July 18, 2017 Linguistics

Jeffrey Green is 2017 recipient of the Howard Lasnik Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student.

Masha teaching at Tbilisi Summer School

July 18, 2017 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky teaches "Generative Syntax and Formal Typology" at the 2017 Tbilisi Summer School in Linguistics, together with Eric Potsdam.

Chris Heffner to UConn on NSF postdoc

July 06, 2017 Linguistics

Chris Heffner heads to UConn with two years of NSF support for "Identifying a Common Mechanism for Phonetic Learning and Phonetic Adaptation," a project with Emily Myers and Peter Molfese.

Masha and Omer teaching in St. Petersburg

July 05, 2017 Linguistics

The NY-St.Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Language and Culture hosts two seminars, "The many failures of Agree" and "The Structure of Human Language: An Introduction to Generative Syntax," taught by Omer Preminger and Maria Polinsky.

Ewan Dunbar, professor at Paris 7!