Department news

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 02, 2023 Linguistics

New work from Ellen and her students

On predication, relative clauses, wordhood, and word recognition.

February 18, 2022 Linguistics

Colin to head Section Z of the AAAS

Flying the flag for language in the science ecosystem.

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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Alexis Wellwood talking in Konstanz

October 04, 2012 Linguistics

Alexis gives an invited talk titled "A matter of degrees: Composing cross-categorial comparatives" at a workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Quantity Expressions in Konstanz, Germany.

Philip Resnik introduces React Labs

October 03, 2012 Linguistics

On September 3 before the first presidential debate, Philip Resnik introduced React Labs, a real-time crowd-sourcing reaction platform, at the University of Maryland.

Valentine Hacquard talking at UMass

September 28, 2012 Linguistics

Valentine gives a colloquium talk at UMass Amherst, "Attitude Problems".

Masa Takahashi paper in Lingua

September 25, 2012 Linguistics

Masa's paper "On restructuring infinitives in Japanese: Adjunction, clausal architecture, and phases" is soon to appear in Lingua.

Jeff Lidz talking at USC

September 24, 2012 Linguistics

Jeff Lidz gives a colloquium talk, "On competence and performance, mostly", at the USC Department of Linguistics.

"Psycho Linguists" 10th overall, 3rd in division

September 24, 2012 Linguistics

Roaring cheers for our Ragnar Relay team, who placed 10th out of 293 teams and 3rd among teams with with more men than women.

Linguists run octuple marathon in 26.8 hours!

September 22, 2012 Linguistics

Hail to a team of 12 Maryland linguists and their support crew, who ran the 200-mile Ragnar Relay.

Tonia Bleam in Paris at TAG+11

September 20, 2012 Linguistics

Tonia presents "Delayed Tree- Locality, Set-locality, and Clitic Climbing" at the 11th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms in Paris.

Allison at SPR in New Orleans

September 18, 2012 Linguistics

New RA Allison Fogel presents "Processing Emotion and Taboo in Native vs. Second Language" at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Psychophysiological Research in New Orleans.

Terje Lohndal wins honor in Norway

September 17, 2012 Linguistics

Terje Lohndal *12 has been named one of the 10 most outstanding Norwegian researchers below 40.