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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.

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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Welcome to six summer research fellows

May 25, 2012 Linguistics

Welcome to Anna Bonnet, Morgan Moyer, Ilanna Newman, Emma Nguyen, Alex Ralph, and Sandy Wan – six undergraduate Linguistics majors who have been awarded funded research positions to work on language science projects this summer.

Tim Hunter to join faculty at Minnesota!

May 23, 2012 Linguistics

Tim Hunter *10 has accepted an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, within its Institute of Linguistics.

Brad Larson at CGSW

May 21, 2012 Linguistics

At the 27th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop at Yale, Brad Larson presents "Wh-dependencies without movement in Germanic."

Maryland at SALT 22 in Chicago

May 09, 2012 Linguistics

At SALT 22, Shevaun Lewis presents "The semantics and pragmatics of belief reports in preschoolers", work with Valentine Hacquard and Jeff Lidz, while Alexander Williams presents "Null Complement Anaphors as definite descriptions."

Kenshi at WAFL 8 in Stuttgart

May 07, 2012 Linguistics

Kenshi Funakoshi presents "Backward control in external possession constructions in Japanese" at the 8th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL) at Universität Stuttgart, Germany.

Brad Larson at FASL 21 in Indiana

May 07, 2012 Linguistics

Brad Larson presents "Not-so-across-the-board-movement in Macedonian" at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics in Bloomington, Indiana,

Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships Announced

May 04, 2012 American Studies, Art History and Archaeology, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Spanish and Portuguese

Twelve ARHU doctoral students receive 2012-2013 Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships.Congratulations to ARHU’s Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellows!

Annie Gagliardi awarded Post-Doc Fellowship

May 02, 2012 Linguistics

Annie Gagliardi has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the NSF/NEH Documenting Endangered Languages Fund.

Mayfest 2012!

May 01, 2012 Linguistics

May 4-5, the department hosts Mayfest 2012, "The Role of Computational Models in Linguistic Theory".

Terje Lohndal to faculty in Trondheim

April 29, 2012 Linguistics

Terje Lohndal has accepted a position as Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.