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Linguistics

Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar

Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.

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.

August 09, 2021 Linguistics

New jobs for alumni

New positions and homecomings for several recent graduates.

May 24, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Linguistics, American Studies

Three ARHU Faculty Members Named Graduate Faculty Mentors of the Year

Melissa Blanco Borelli of the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Naomi Feldman of the Department of Linguistics and Nancy Raquel Mirabal of the Department of American Studies are recognized.

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Masha and Omer teaching in St. Petersburg

July 05, 2017 Linguistics

The NY-St.Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Language and Culture hosts two seminars, "The many failures of Agree" and "The Structure of Human Language: An Introduction to Generative Syntax," taught by Omer Preminger and Maria Polinsky.

Sigwan on Algonquian negation in Germany

July 04, 2017 Linguistics

Sigwan Thivierge is in Göttingen, giving a joint presentation on negation, "Negation & Co.," with local PhD students Marten Stelling and Jovana Gajić, as part of the The Landscape of Neg-words Project led by Hedde Zeijlstra.

Naomi wins NSF grant

July 03, 2017 Linguistics

Naomi Feldman's "Modeling the Development of Phonetic Representations" has just won 3 years of NSF support.

Omer on feature valuation

July 02, 2017 Linguistics

"How can feature sharing be asymmetric?" asks Omer Preminger in a new volume of Papers for David Pesetsky.

Masha, Omer and Ted in Handbook of Ergativity

June 29, 2017 Linguistics

Check out "Antipassive, Experimental approaches to ergativity," "Split ergativity is not about ergativity" and "Ergativity and Austronesian-type voice systems "in the Oxford Handbook of Ergativity from Maria Polinsky, Omer Preminger and Ted Levin.

Aaron Doliana on floating in Leipzig

June 21, 2017 Linguistics

Aaron discusses "Wh-quantifier floating in German" at Leipzig, in a meeting of the syntax group at the Institut für Linguistik.

Naomi and Ellen in Santa Barbara

June 17, 2017 Linguistics

The Kavli Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience has lectures by Naomi and Ellen, in its course on Computational Perspectives on Language Prediction in the Brain.

2017-18 Capaa And Rasa Award Recipients

June 05, 2017 College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

ARHU extends congratulations to 24 faculty awardees.

Blogging from the Guatemala Field Station

May 30, 2017 Linguistics

Ütz apetik to the new weblog from our linguists at the Guatemala Field Station. Follow them over the next few weeks of research, collaboration, friendship and adventure.

Bon voyage to Marylanders in Guatemala

May 26, 2017 Linguistics

It's off to the Guatemala Field Station for Anouk Dieuleveut, Michaela Socolof, Nancy Clarke, Paulina Lyskawa, Rodrigo Ranero and Ted Levin, along with Maria Polinsky and Omer Preminger.