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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Masha and Omer in Glossa on agreement

August 30, 2019 Linguistics

In "The agreement theta generalization," Maria Polinsky and Omer Preminger defend the new generalization that something which assigns a DP a thematic-role is never in a higher clause than a head which agrees with it.

Welcome Shohini and Zara, two new postdocs

August 30, 2019 Linguistics

Greetings to Shohini Bhattasali and Zara Harmon, postdoctoral fellows with Philip Resnik and Naomi Feldman.

Welcome visiting students, Hailin and Alexey

August 29, 2019 Linguistics

Say hello to Hailin Hao and Alexey Kozlov, two visiting students.

Annemarie at Sinn und Bedeutung

August 28, 2019 Linguistics

Sinn und Bedeutung 24 has Annemarie van Dooren discussing "The temporal perspective of epistemics in Dutch."

Hello Morgan Sonderegger and Soo-Min Hong

August 27, 2019 Linguistics

Welcome to two visiting professors, Morgan Sonderegger from McGill, and Soo-Min Hong from the University of Seoul, a UMD alum from the Class of '05.

Zoe Schlueter to postdoc in Tromsø

August 26, 2019 Linguistics

Zoe Schlueter *17 is now a postdoc with Jason Rothman at the Artic University of Norway in Tromsø.

Welcome Class of 2024!

August 22, 2019 Linguistics

Warm greetings to future alumni Maša Bešlin (Novi Sad), Nika Jurov (Paris), Alex Krauska (Northwestern), Justin Malčić (Cambridge), Jessica Mendes (São Paolo) and Polina Pleshak (Moscow State). We look forward to five fun and productive years!

Alayo to postdoc in Minnesota