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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Howard and Kenshi in Handbook of Ellipsis

April 06, 2019 Linguistics

Read about Ellipsis in Transformational Grammar, in a chapter by Howard Lasnik and 2014 alum and Assistant Professor at Dokkyo University, Kenshi Funakoshi, within the new Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis.

Annemarie, Anouk, Mina & Sigwan at MACSIM

April 04, 2019 Linguistics

The 8th MACSIM, at NYU, has a talk by Annemarie van Dooren and posters by Anouk Dieuleveut, Mina Hirzel and Sigwan Thivierge.

What's in Storrs for Valentine

April 03, 2019 Linguistics

Valentine Hacquard explains "What to learn in learning attitude and modal meanings" at the UConn Linguistics Department colloquium.

Anouk on implicatures in JML

March 27, 2019 Linguistics

Now in the Journal of Memory and Language, Anouk Dieuleveut makes Distinctions between primary and secondary implicatures, in a paper co-authored with Emmanuel Chemla and Benjamin Spector.

Terps roll through Boulder

March 22, 2019 Linguistics

At CUNY in Colorado, it's Terps all the way down.

Sigwan at PLC43 in Philly

March 17, 2019 Linguistics

Sigwan Thivierge argues for Expanding the agreement domain in Georgian at the 43rd Penn Linguistics Colloquium.

Tyler, Mina and Adam in B'more at SRCD

March 15, 2019 Linguistics

The Society for Research in Child Development has posters by Mina Hirzel, Tyler Knowlton and Adam Liter, reporting on joint work with Valentine Hacquard, Jeffrey Lidz, Michigan State's Alan Munn and a number of collaborators.

Sigwan lecturing on Georgian at McGill

March 14, 2019 Linguistics

Sigwan Thivierge talks about "Expanding the agreement domain in Georgian," in a special session of a graduate syntax seminar on 'Hierarchy effects' led by Jessica Coon at McGill.

Masha to NSF: Linguistics matters

March 13, 2019 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky presents "Linguistics Matters" in the Distinguished Lecture Series at the NSF's Directorate of Social, Behavior and Economic Sciences.

Masha on exceptives at Chicago

March 04, 2019 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky limns The Landscape of Exceptives in a colloquium talk at the University of Chicago.