The Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland combines current theoretical research in phonology, syntax, and semantics with state-of-the-art experimental research in language acquisition, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics.
Our top-ranked department plays a leading role in the largest and most integrated language science research community in North America.
News
- Maryland Language Scientists at Northwood High School
- On January 26, Yakov Kronrod , Susan Teubner-Rhodes, and Jeff Lidz went to Northwood High School in Silver ...
- Kenshi's paper to appear in "Linguistic Inquiry"
- Congratulations to Kenshi Funakoshi, whose "On Headless XP-Movement/Ellipsis'' is to appear in Linguistic Inquiry. The paper makes two proposals: ...
- New era of "Language Acquisition"
- Congratulations to Jeff Lidz and Csilla Katjar, on issue 19(1) of Language Acquisition, the first with Jeff ...
- Talks at the LSA in Portland, January 5-8
- Annie Gagliardi, Brad Larson, Dave Kush, and Alexis Wellwood – with Naomi Feldman, Colin ...
- New book by Juan Uriagereka
- Juan Uriagereka, Professor in Linguistics and Associate Provost of Faculty Affairs, has recently published a new book, Spell-Out ...
Recent publications
- Seeing what you mean, mostly. Paul Pietroski, Jeffrey Lidz, Tim Hunter, Darko Odic, Justin Halberda.
- Derivational order in syntax: Evidence and architectural consequences. Colin Phillips and Shevaun Lewis.
- Basquing in Minimalism. Alex Drummond, Norbert Hornstein. Biolinguistics.
- Height-Relative Determination of (Non-Root) Modal Flavor: Evidence from Hindi. Dave Kush. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT).
- Distributivity and modality: where "each" may go, "every" can't follow. Michaël Gagnon, Alexis Wellwood. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT).