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.

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Chow et al. and Parker et al., now published

October 07, 2015 Linguistics

Two new publications, "A 'bag-of-arguments' mechanism for initial verb predictions" and "Interference in the processing of adjunct control," which report core parts of the dissertation work of Wing-Yee Chow and Dan Parker, respectively.

PsychoLinguists run 200 miles through torrents

October 04, 2015 Linguistics

Big cheers for 12 Maryland language scientists and alums, plus their crew, who ran the Ragnar Relay in only about 28hrs.

Jeff talking at alma mater

October 01, 2015 Linguistics

Jeffrey Lidz gives the Linguistics Colloquium talk at Delaware.

Terp team at Fifth MACSIM in Delaware

September 28, 2015 Linguistics

Zoe, Annemarie, Chris Baron and Chris Vogel present work at MACSIM in Delaware.

Rachel invited to symposium at Pittsburgh

September 24, 2015 Linguistics

Rachel Dudley presents an invited talk at "The Geography of Philosophy: Knowledge, Person, and Wisdom," a symposium at Pitt organized by Stephen Stich, Clark Barrett, and Edouard Machery.

Omer in Georgia at Tbilisi Symposium

September 15, 2015 Linguistics

Omer Preminger is along the Mt'k'vari as an invited speaker at "The Implementation of Obligatoriness" a workshop organized by Rajesh Bhatt and Vincent Homer.

Hello to four graduate student visitors

September 07, 2015 Linguistics

We welcome four visiting PhD students: Michele Alves, Christian Broadbeck, Emily Darley and Alex de Carvalho.

Maria Polinsky, LSA Fellow

September 06, 2015 Linguistics

Maria Polinksy has been named an LSA Fellow for her "distinguished contributions to the discipline," joining Howard Lasnik in this distinguished group.

Welcome Jesse Harris, faculty visitor

September 01, 2015 Linguistics

This semester we are happy to host Jesse Harris, Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UCLA, and director of the UCLA Language Processing Lab.

Momma in Malta at AMLaP