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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Paul at Arizona

October 16, 2015 Linguistics

Paul Pietroski presents "Semantic Internalism" as part of the Linguistics Colloquium at Arizona.

Baron at NELS

October 14, 2015 Linguistics

Baggett Fellow Chris Baron presents Generalized Concept Generators at the first poster session of this year's NELS.

Terps at SNL in Second City

October 12, 2015 Linguistics

The Society for the Neurobiology of Language hosts presentations by Phoebe, William, Natalia, Anna and Ellen; plus alumni Diogo Almeida, Akira Omaki, Utako Minai and Rob Fiorentino; and former postdocs Ming and Mathias.

Omer and Valentine, invited at NELS

October 10, 2015 Linguistics

NELS is in Montreal, with invited speakers Omer Preminger and Valentine Hacquard, a Terrapin double-header.

Dongwoo at NELS46 in Montreal

October 09, 2015 Linguistics

Dongwoo Park presents "VP as an Ellipsis Site in Korean" at NELS, which gives new data that Korean has VP ellipsis, and argues that such ellipsis is deletion that occurs during the syntactic derivation.

Chow et al. and Parker et al., now published

October 07, 2015 Linguistics

Two new publications, "A 'bag-of-arguments' mechanism for initial verb predictions" and "Interference in the processing of adjunct control," which report core parts of the dissertation work of Wing-Yee Chow and Dan Parker, respectively.

Tim Hunter invited to MIT workshop

October 07, 2015 Linguistics

2010 alumnus Tim Hunter is an invited speaker at the First Workshop on Minimalist Parsing, with the talk "Left-Corner Parsing of Minimalist Grammars."

PsychoLinguists run 200 miles through torrents

October 04, 2015 Linguistics

Big cheers for 12 Maryland language scientists and alums, plus their crew, who ran the Ragnar Relay in only about 28hrs.

Jeff talking at alma mater

October 01, 2015 Linguistics

Jeffrey Lidz gives the Linguistics Colloquium talk at Delaware.

Terp team at Fifth MACSIM in Delaware

September 28, 2015 Linguistics

Zoe, Annemarie, Chris Baron and Chris Vogel present work at MACSIM in Delaware.