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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Aron up at Yale

February 01, 2025 Linguistics

Allowing for more complex alternatives, pragmatically.

Collection for Masha now published

January 24, 2025 Linguistics

"Syntax in uncharted territories".

Clara and Rosa win Lasnik Award

January 24, 2025 Linguistics

Honoring excellence in teaching by graduate students.

Aron back at McGill

January 14, 2025 Linguistics

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Luisa in Glossa

January 08, 2025 Linguistics

Silent high copies in Alpine Arpitan.

Jeff Lidz, new LSA Fellow, gives Plenary Address

December 28, 2024 Linguistics

Developing linguistic theory through a diversity of methods.

Maryland in Philly at LSA

December 28, 2024 Linguistics

Syntax, phonology, morphology and acquisition.

Chabot in Phonology

December 13, 2024 Linguistics

The abstractness of lenition and gemination in Sardinian.

Hacquard headlines Heimfest

December 02, 2024 Linguistics

Questions in acquisition.

Bešlin in Brno

November 13, 2024 Linguistics

Invited talk at 17th Formal Description of Slavic Languages.