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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Alexis to USC Philosophy

April 25, 2017 Linguistics

Alexis Wellwood, 2009 Baggett alum and 2014 PhD alum, becomes Assistant Professor of Philosophy at USC.

Howard on locality at UCLA

April 24, 2017 Linguistics

Howard Lasnik is at the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, giving the Lois E. Matthews Lecture, on "Locality and Quasi-Locality – Old and New Approaches to ‘Clause-mate’ Phenomena".

Aaron White to professorship at Rochester

April 21, 2017 Linguistics

Aaron Steven White is soon to be Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Data Science at the University of Rochester, with secondary appointments in the Computer Science and the Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Zoe hailed to Edinburgh for postdoc

April 20, 2017 Linguistics

Zoe Schlueter starts a postdoctoral research position with Chris Cummins at the University of Edinburgh.

Shota wins Distinguished Dissertation Award

April 19, 2017 Linguistics

Shota Momma is winner of this year's Caramello Award, within Social Sciences, for Parsing, Generation, and Grammar, his 2016 dissertation, written under the supervision of Colin Phillips.

Sol on representing antecedents

April 18, 2017 Linguistics

Now out, "Coreference and Antecedent Representation Across Languages" from 2014 alum Sol Lago.

Zoe and Chris win NSF dissertation grants

April 17, 2017 Linguistics

Zoe Schlueter and Chris Heffner have won NSF support for their dissertation projects.

2017 Umd Critical Language Scholarship Recipients

April 14, 2017 American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, Linguistics, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Romance Languages

Thirteen UMD students receive Critical Language Scholarships.

Naomi and Omer, Associate Professors

April 05, 2017 Linguistics

Naomi Feldman and Omer Preminger have received tenure in our department and promotion to Associate Professor.