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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Terje Lohndal colloquium talk at U Arizona

October 10, 2011 Linguistics

Terje Lohndal gives a linguistics colloquium talk at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Michaël Gagnon and Alexis Wellwood paper in SALT proceedings

October 07, 2011 Linguistics

Michaël Gagnon and Alexis Wellwood have a paper published in the Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 21, entitled "Distributivity and modality: where 'each' may go, 'every' can't follow".

Alexis Wellwood and Valentine Hacquard paper to appear in Journal of Semantics

October 05, 2011 Linguistics

Alexis Wellwood, Valentine Hacquard and Roumyana Pancheva have a paper appearing in the Journal of Semantics., "Measuring and Comparing Individuals and Events."

Language Science Day Showcases Umd'S Uniquely Broad Expertise In Language

October 04, 2011 College of Arts and Humanities, English, Linguistics, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

The event brought together 200 researchers to improve awareness of language-related research at the university.

Norbert and Juan to talk in Potsdam

September 29, 2011 Linguistics

Norbert Hornstein and Juan Uriagereka give invited talks at the University Potsdam for "The Minimalist Program: Quo Vadis?"

Jeff Lidz to give Euro-XPrag keynote address

September 26, 2011 Linguistics

Jeff Lidz gives the keynote address at the European Experimental Pragmatics (Euro-XPrag) Pisa Workshop.

First MASCSLL a success

September 24, 2011 Linguistics

UMD and Hopkins organize first Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning.

Maryland linguists run 200 miles in 27.5 hours!