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 to give first Higginbotham Lecture at USC

November 02, 2014 Linguistics

November 7, USC honors the late Jim Higginbotham with the first lecture in a biennial series, Paul Pietroski on "Form and Composition."

Grano and Lasnik on pronouns in Tübingen

October 31, 2014 Linguistics

Postdoc alum Tom Grano presents “How to neutralize a finite clause boundary: Phase theory and the grammar of bound pronouns,” joint work with Howard Lasnik, in Tübingen at a workshop on pronouns under attitude verbs.

Kasia Hitczenko wins Travel Award for BUCLD

October 30, 2014 Linguistics

Kasia Hitczenko has received a Paula Menyuk Travel Award to help with travel expenses for BUCLD, where she presents "Cognitive Limitations Impose Advantageous Constraints on Word Segmentation."

BU Terponanza

October 28, 2014 Linguistics

BUCLD features talks and posters by fifteen current or former Maryland language scientists.

Omer talking at UMass colloquium

October 24, 2014 Linguistics

Omer Preminger presents "The syntax (and morphology) of non-valuation" at the UMass linguistics colloquium.

Lidz and Kronrod on Outreach

October 23, 2014 Linguistics

Now out in Language and Linguistics Compass, "Expanding our reach and theirs: When Linguists go to High School," by Jeffrey Lidz and Yakov Kronrod.

Angela He wins Student Award from Society for Language Development

October 20, 2014 Linguistics

Angela He is one of two recipients of the annual SLD Student Award, for "a record of achievement, and of sustained interest in interdisciplinary research" on language development.

Congratulations to Elika Bergelson!

October 09, 2014 Linguistics

Baggett alum Elika Bergelson was awarded $1.25M by the National Institute of Health for being named one of the 2014 Early Independence Award recipients.

Dillon, Chow, Wagers, Guo, Liu and Phillips: now out in Frontiers in Psychology

September 24, 2014 Linguistics

Just published, "The structure-sensitivity of memory access: evidence from Mandarin Chinese", by Brian Dillon, Wing Yee Chow, Matt Wagers, and Colin Phillips.

Omer's book on shelves now!

September 17, 2014 Linguistics

Omer Preminger's book, "Agreement and its Failures," are now published.