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 on scope in heritage languages

May 05, 2017 Linguistics

Now out in Glossa, "Cross-linguistic scope ambiguity: When two systems meet" by Gregory Scontras, Maria Polinsky, C.-Y. Edwin Tsai and Kenneth Mai.

Kasia to Japan on NSF-EAPSI fellowship

May 01, 2017 Linguistics

Kasia Hitczenko will be in Reiko Mazuka's lab this summer, working on models of phonetic category acquisition that take into account prosody's effects on vowel length, with support from the NSF's East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute.

Ellen at UConn

April 30, 2017 Linguistics

Ellen gives an invited talk at the 8th annual University of Connecticut Language Fest on ‘New Directions for Neural Measures of Syntactic and Semantic Structure Building'.

Brian Dillon tenured at UMass

April 29, 2017 Linguistics

2011 alum Brian Dillon is now Associate Professor of Linguistics at UMass.

Rodrigo, Gesoel and Masha in Cambridge

April 26, 2017 Linguistics

Gesoel Mendes and Rodrigo Ranero present "Restrictions on Adjunct Extraction: Microvariation in Mayan" at Cambridge Comparative Syntax 6.

Alexis to USC Philosophy

April 25, 2017 Linguistics

Alexis Wellwood, 2009 Baggett alum and 2014 PhD alum, becomes Assistant Professor of Philosophy at USC.

Howard on locality at UCLA

April 24, 2017 Linguistics

Howard Lasnik is at the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, giving the Lois E. Matthews Lecture, on "Locality and Quasi-Locality – Old and New Approaches to ‘Clause-mate’ Phenomena".

Aaron White to professorship at Rochester

April 21, 2017 Linguistics

Aaron Steven White is soon to be Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Data Science at the University of Rochester, with secondary appointments in the Computer Science and the Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Zoe hailed to Edinburgh for postdoc

April 20, 2017 Linguistics

Zoe Schlueter starts a postdoctoral research position with Chris Cummins at the University of Edinburgh.

Shota wins Distinguished Dissertation Award

April 19, 2017 Linguistics

Shota Momma is winner of this year's Caramello Award, within Social Sciences, for Parsing, Generation, and Grammar, his 2016 dissertation, written under the supervision of Colin Phillips.