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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Naho Orita and Rachel Dudley at Northwestern

April 11, 2013 Linguistics

Naho Orita and Rachel Dudley will be giving talks in Masaya Yoshida's lab, Northwestern University.

Carolina Petersen at LSRL 43

April 11, 2013 Linguistics

Carolina Petersen is presenting her paper "Raising and hyper-raising across experiencer in Brazilian Portuguese: a vP phase evidence" at the 43th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL).

Maryland in Chicago at CLS

April 10, 2013 Linguistics

Yuki Ito presents "Asymmetric A-movement within vP" at CLS49, while Rachel Dudley, Naho Orita, Morgan Moyer, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeff Lidz present "Three year olds' understanding of "know" and "think"".

Dustin Chacon in Minnesota

April 09, 2013 Linguistics

Dustin Chacón goes to Northfield, Minnesota, to present at the Minnesota Undergraduate Linguistics Symposium as an invited speaker.

Tom Grano at NYU

April 08, 2013 Linguistics

Tom Grano presents "Verb meaning, restructuring, and the grammar of complement control" at the NYU Syntax/Semantics Brown Bag series.

Maryland at MACSIM in Baltimore

April 08, 2013 Linguistics

The Third MACSIM, at Hopkins, will feature four posters from UMD, and a talk on "Plural "De Se" Reports" by Chris LaTerza.

Maryland Language Scientists at CNS

April 01, 2013 Linguistics

Sol Lago and Wing Yee Chow presenting a poster at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in San Francisco.

Chris Heffner and Josh Falk win NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

March 29, 2013 Linguistics

Chris Heffner and Josh Falk have each been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for 2013-2016.

Zoe, Rachel and Dongwoo at ECO5

March 27, 2013 Linguistics

Zoe Schlueter, Rachel Dudley and Dongwoo Park give talks at the East Coast Workshop in Syntax, at UConn.

Maryland intern continues winning streak

March 22, 2013 Linguistics

Susan Ojo, an intern in our acquisition lab, won first place in her category again, this time at the regional science fair.