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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Colin, Lara and Masha at AAAS in Texas

February 08, 2018 Linguistics

Colin Phillips and Lara Ehrenhofer are doing Family Science Days at the annual meeting of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science.

Greetings, spring visitors

February 01, 2018 Linguistics

Say hello to three new visitors, Alice Jesus, Meg Cychosz and Xiao Qimin.

Rodrigo awarded grant for summer research

January 30, 2018 Linguistics

DC's Cosmos Club will support "Documenting Santiago Tz'utujiil," a project Rodrigo Ranero will undertake this summer, traveling to Patzún and Santiago Atitlán to work with consultants in analyzing the morphosyntax of their variety of Tz'utujiil.

Colin at Harvard for colloquium

January 29, 2018 Linguistics

Colin Phillips is at Harvard giving their colloquium talk.

Maryland in Annual Review of Linguistics

January 27, 2018 Linguistics

Now in the Annual Review, papers from Norbert, Colin with 2016 alum Shota Momma, plus 2009 alum Phil Monahan.

Wing-Yee's paper published

January 25, 2018 Linguistics

"Wait a Second!," by alum Wing-Yee Chow, is now in Language, Cognition & Neuroscience, with co-authors Ellen Lau, Suiping Wang and Colin Phillips.

Happy Birthday Heitor Mendes!

January 25, 2018 Linguistics

Ana and Gesoel Mendes welcome their son Heitor, born January 23, happily and healthily.

Rodrigo, Paulina and Ted working in Guatemala

January 15, 2018 Linguistics

Back in Patzún for a week of field work on Tzu'tujiil are Rodrigo Ranero, Paulina Lyskawa and former postdoc Theodore Levin, continuing their investigation of absolutive agreement in the Santiago variety of the language.

Philip in Politico

January 12, 2018 Linguistics

Check out Philip Resnick in Politico on the use of NLP and data analysis for government work.

Zach with alums at SCiL 2018

December 23, 2017 Linguistics

Zach Stone gives a poster at the first meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, a group founded in part by Marylanders Naomi Feldman and Tim Hunter.