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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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Welcome new faculty, Omer Preminger!

April 07, 2014 Linguistics

Welcome Omer Preminger, our new Assistant Professor of Linguistics, starting this fall.

Carolina in Chicago at CLS 50

April 02, 2014 Linguistics

Carolina Petersen presents "Hyper-Raising and locality: a view from Brazilian Portuguese and Greek" co-authored with Arhonto Terzi at CLS50.

Sol Lago to postdoc in Potsdam, Germany

March 31, 2014 Linguistics

Sol Lago has accepted a postdoc with Claudia Felser at the Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism.

Dustin Chacón at FASAL IV

March 25, 2014 Linguistics

Dustin presenting a poster at the 4th Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL IV) Conference at Rutgers.

Yakov Kronrod named finalist for the Graduate Student Distinguished Service Award

March 25, 2014 Linguistics

Yakov Kronrod was named a finalist for the prestigious University of Maryland Graduate Student Distinguished Service Award.

Third Man Group at the Penn Linguistics Colloquium

March 21, 2014 Linguistics

Alexis, Angela, Jeff and Alexander present "Participant structure in event perception: Towards the acquisition of implicitly 3-place predicates" in Philly at PLC38.

Dan Parker, Asst. Professor at William and Mary!

March 19, 2014 Linguistics

Dan Parker is to be Assistant Professor in the Program in Linguistics at the College of William and Mary.

Annie and Jeff on Tsez in Language and the news

March 19, 2014 Linguistics

In the news after its publication in Language this month, is Gagliardi and Lidz's "Statistical Insensitivity in the Acquisition of Tsez Noun Classes."

Terje Lohndal wins two awards

March 11, 2014 Linguistics

Terje Lohndal wins the Young Research Prize and the Nils Klim Prize.

Jeff Green giving colloquium talk at Utah

March 10, 2014 Linguistics

Jeffrey Green presents "Remote Control: Evidence against grammatical binding of PRO in reason clauses" at the Utah Department of Linguistics colloquium.