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. Mayfest brings together 8-12 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-Saturday.

The next Mayfest

May 4-5, 2012 (The role of computational models in linguistic theory)

Past Mayfests

• 2011, The Interpretation of Pronouns
• 2010, Bridging Typology and Acquisition
• 2009, Moving Beyond Truth Conditions: The Computation of Meaning
• 2008, Island Perspectives
• 2007, Where, When and Why is Hierarchy Needed?
• 2006, Language Learning Fest: Counts, Cues, Constraints and Computation
• 2005, WH-fest
• 2002, The Minimalist Fact
• 2001, Cognitive Neuroscience of Language
• 2000, Syntactic Effects of Changes in Inflectional Systems (DIGS VI)
• 1999, Morphology
• 1998, Minority Languages in the Twenty-first Century: Perspectives on Basque Language
• 1997, Optimality Theory Workshop