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Mayfest

Each year the graduate students of the Linguistics Department of the University of Maryland organize a two-day workshop, Mayfest, focusing on a different aspect of language and linguistic theory.

Mayfest brings together eight-12 leading researchers to present their work in relation to the theme, leaving ample time for active discussion. It is typically held in the first week of May, Friday to Saturday.

Mayfest 2024: The Science of Linguistic Diversity

This year our Mayfest will celebrate Maria (Masha) Polinsky. The event, titled "The Science of Linguistic Diversity", will bring together over a dozen syntacticians and semanticists who have worked closely with Masha on fieldwork, heritage languages, cross-linguistic diversity, and experimental psycholinguistics. It will also feature two round table discussions on "Experimental work and fieldwork on understudied and heritage languages" and "The Mayan-Austronesian Connection."

Past Mayfests