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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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Masha organizes Winter School course on K'iche'

January 25, 2021 Linguistics

First ever online course on a Mayan language.

Paulina and Rodrigo with Ted Levin in German Journal of Linguistics

January 24, 2021 Linguistics

Paper argues that optional agreement in Santiago Tz’utujil is syntactic.

Aaron in NLLT on Control

January 21, 2021 Linguistics

An analysis of "proxy control" in German and Italian, where 'Maria asked Bill to leave" is used to mean that Maria sought permission for people she represents.

Clara at NYI Winter School

January 19, 2021 Linguistics

Taking classes on gesture and meaning across modalities.

Omer teaching in St Petersburg, virtually

January 13, 2021 Linguistics

A virtual and hibernal course on what needs to be listed in a grammar.

Sol Lago *14 profiled in Goethe University news

January 08, 2021 Linguistics

On the use of eye-tracking to study language processing in the bilingual brain

Hanna wins Outstanding Teaching Assistant award

December 30, 2020 Linguistics

Graduate School recognizes Hanna's exceptional contributions to students and instructors.

Paulina and Rodrigo at SSILA