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
- Dillon, Dunbar and Idsardi in "Cognitive Science"
- Congratulations to Brian Dillon, Ewan Dunbar and Bill Idsardi whose "A single stage approach to learning ...
- Welcome to visiting students Romy Lassota and Lyn Tieu!
- Please greet Romy Lassota and Lyn Tieu who are visiting UMD Linguistics this semester. Romy is a graduate student at ...
- Philip Resnik on Kojo Naamdi
- Recently Philip Resnik appeared on WAMU's "The Kojo Naamdi Show" (transcript) to discuss automatic sentiment analysis and social ...
- Brad Larson at CUNY Syntax Supper
- On Feb. 7 Brad Larson is presenting "WYSIWYG RNR" at the CUNY Syntax Supper. Brad argues against current ...
- 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 ...
Recent publications
- A Dilemma with Accounts of Right-node Raising. Bradley Larson. Linguistic Inquiry.
- Interrogatives, Instructions, and I-languages: An I-Semantics for Questions. Terje Lohndal and Paul Pietroski. Linguistic Analysis.
- 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).
- The adicities of thematic separation. Terje Lohndal. Proceedings of SALT.