Department news

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 02, 2023 Linguistics

New work from Ellen and her students

On predication, relative clauses, wordhood, and word recognition.

February 18, 2022 Linguistics

Colin to head Section Z of the AAAS

Flying the flag for language in the science ecosystem.

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.

May 24, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Linguistics, American Studies

Three ARHU Faculty Members Named Graduate Faculty Mentors of the Year

Melissa Blanco Borelli of the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Naomi Feldman of the Department of Linguistics and Nancy Raquel Mirabal of the Department of American Studies are recognized.

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Talks at the LSA in Portland, January 5-8

December 16, 2011 Linguistics

Annie Gagliardi, Bradley Larson, Dave Kush, and Alexis Wellwood – with Naomi Feldman, Colin Phillips, Jeffrey Lidz, Paul Pietroski and Justin Halberda from Johns Hopkins – are presenting at the LSA.

New book by Juan Uriagereka

December 14, 2011 Linguistics

Juan Uriagereka, Professor in Linguistics and Associate Provost of Faculty Affairs, has recently published a new book, <i>Spell-Out and the Minimalist Program</i>.

Jon Sprouse awarded Best Paper in Language

December 07, 2011 Linguistics

The LSA's Best Paper in <i>Language</i> 2011 Award goes to Jon Sprouse *07 for "A test of the cognitive assumptions of magnitude estimation: Commutativity does not hold for acceptability judgments."

Dave Kush paper in SALT proceedings

November 29, 2011 Linguistics

Dave Kush has a paper published in the Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 21, entitled "Height-Relative Determination of (Non-Root) Modal Flavor: Evidence from Hindi".

Kush experiments on reciprocals in India

November 17, 2011 Linguistics

Dave Kush is back from three weeks in India running experiments on the processing of Hindi reciprocals. The work was done at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University.

"Poverty of the Stimulus Revisited" in Cognitive Science

November 15, 2011 Linguistics

"Poverty of the Stimulus Revisited" by Robert Berwick, Paul Pietroski, Beracah Yankama and Noam Chomsky has appeared in September's Cognitive Science.

Philip Resnik talks about new work in NLP

November 14, 2011 Linguistics

Philip Resnik was recently in California to give the keynote talk at the 2011 Sentiment Analysis Symposium, and to speak to the machine translation group at Google Research about his work on crowdsourcing and translation.

Howard Lasnik and Brad Larson at Islands conference

November 07, 2011 Linguistics

Howard Lasnik is the invited speaker at "Islands in Contemporary Syntactic Theory," at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Maryland linguists at BUCLD

October 31, 2011 Linguistics

Representing UMD on Nov. 4-6 at the B.U. Conference on Language Development are Annie, Angela, Megan, Jeff, and undergrad major Michael Fetters/

Dustin Chacón to present at CUNY Syntax Supper

October 24, 2011 Linguistics

Dustin Chacón will be presenting his work on head movement in the Bangla DP at the CUNY Syntax Supper on November 1st.