Department news

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.

Showing 81 - 90 of 1216 Results

Alexis Wellwood promoted to Full Professor

December 13, 2023 Linguistics

Professor of Philosophy at USC.

Sathvik in Singapore for EMNLP

December 05, 2023 Linguistics

On surprisal in reading subwords.

Ellen in Philly

December 01, 2023 Linguistics

Comprehension and production, wordlesssly.

Masha on antipassives in Frankfurt

November 20, 2023 Linguistics

There is no structural (implicit) object in Kaqchikel antipassives.

Language Scientists Showcase Scholarship at BUCLD

November 09, 2023 Maryland Language Science Center, Linguistics

University of Maryland students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty members recently participated in the 48th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 48). Seven students, two postdoctoral researchers, and five faculty me

Maša, Luisa and Polina talking at SynNYU workshop

November 04, 2023 Linguistics

Maryland in Big Apple for regional meeting of syntacticians.

Maryland at BUCLD 48

November 02, 2023 Linguistics

Presentations on acquisition of syntax, semantics, pragmatics and phonology.

Jeff in Beijing

October 25, 2023 Linguistics

On how Universal Grammar gives us X-ray vision.

Welcome Kate, Omar and Aron

October 24, 2023 Linguistics

New faculty in phonology, syntax and semantics.

Welcome Sharon Goldwater

October 23, 2023 Linguistics

Visiting from Edinburgh for a month.