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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Allyson accepts professorship at Chicago

October 12, 2018 Linguistics

2018 alum Allyson Ettinger joins the University of Chicago as Assistant Professor of Linguistics.

Collection of essays in tribute to Juan

October 08, 2018 Linguistics

Now out, Language, Syntax and the Natural Sciences, essays for Juan Uriagereka, edited by Ángel Gallego and Roger Martin.

Ellen on "pizza flower" in Norway

October 07, 2018 Linguistics

Ellen Lau presents "Neural measures of structure representation: The role of lists," at a symposium aimed Towards Mechanistic Models for Meaning Composition.

Masha in L.A. on Tongan right periphery

October 04, 2018 Linguistics

The USC Linguistics colloquium has Maria Polinsky with "On the right periphery," focusing on her analysis of VOS order in Tongan.

UMD Right Now

UMD Part of Multi-Institutional Team Awarded $14.4M to Develop Innovative Language Technologies

October 03, 2018 Linguistics

The University of Maryland (UMD) is part of multi-institutional team tasked with building a powerful set of language technologies that can unlock information that has previously been unsearchable, and ultimately unfindable.

Matchin, Brodbeck, Hammerly & Lau

October 02, 2018 Linguistics

"The temporal dynamics of structure and content in sentence comprehension: Evidence from fMRI-constrained MEG," by an all-star crew of neuroterps.

Terps up at Cornell for NELS

October 01, 2018 Linguistics

NELS49 has a poster by Nick and Gesoel, and talks by alumni Jeffrey Green, Aaron Steven White, and Masaya Yoshida.

Max at AMP in San Diego

September 30, 2018 Linguistics

At the Annual Meeting on Phonology, Maxime Papillon discusses "The Logical Phonology of Hungarian Voicing Assimilation," joint work with Alena Aksenova (Stony Brook) and Charles Reiss (Concordia), in a poster presentation.

ARHU Faculty Earn Promotion and Tenure

September 25, 2018 American Studies, Art, Classics, Communication, English, History, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, Second Language Acquisition, Linguistics

22 faculty members from the College of Arts and Humanities have received promotion and/or tenure.

Happy Birthday Casper Anandan!

September 24, 2018 Linguistics

On Sepatember 21, Valentine Hacquard and husband Tarek welcomed a beautiful baby boy, Casper Anandan.