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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 at Delaware

October 25, 2016 Linguistics

Colin Phillips is giving the colloquium talk at Delaware Linguistics.

Omer teaching in Romania

October 16, 2016 Linguistics

The University of Bucharest has a crash-course on agreement with Omer Preminger at the helm.

Parker are Phillips are ever in Cognition

October 11, 2016 Linguistics

Now in Cognition, from 2014 alum Dan Parker and Colin Phillips, "Negative polarity illusions and the format of hierarchical encodings in memory."

Masha in Berlin on Ergativity and Control

October 10, 2016 Linguistics

Maria Polsinky discusses "Ergativity and control/raising" at the Control Workshop at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

UMD at NELS47 in Amherst

October 06, 2016 Linguistics

Alexander and Jeff Green, plus Annemarie and Ted, are at the North East Linguistic Society, hosted this year by UMass, with alumni Dustin Chacón, Brian Dillon, Alex Drummond, Tim Hunter, Diogo Almeida, and Masaya Yoshida.

Howard in Kraków and Leipzig

October 04, 2016 Linguistics

Howard Lasnik presents "Clause-mates, phases, and bound pronouns" in Kraków, Poland, and then at Universität Leipzig, "Shrinking Trees: Some Early History."

Valentine at MIT on attitude reports

September 26, 2016 Linguistics

Valentine Hacquard gives both a mini-course and a colloquium talk on the semantics and pragmatics of attitude reports, from the perspective both of the formal semanticist and of the child learner.

MACSIM takes Manhattan

September 25, 2016 Linguistics

The 6th MACSIM is at CUNY, with work by Rachel, Jeff Green, Nick Huang, and Quinn Harr from Philosophy.

Bronze Age for Ragnar

September 21, 2016 Linguistics

Hail to 12 Maryland language scientists, plus their crew, who won bronze in their division of the Ragnar Relay, out of 97 teams, running 207 miles in 29 hours, 2 minutes and 49 seconds.

Neufeld in Amherst for 10th NECPhon

September 19, 2016 Linguistics

Chris Neufeld talks about "Modelling phonetic categories and categorical perception with inner product spaces" at the Northeast Computational Phonology Circle (NECPhon).