Samantha Prins

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Linguistics
University of Arizona

Photo of Sam recording Kaqchikel speakers in Guatemala

Curriculum Vitae (Fall 2024) 

About Me

I am a PhD candidate at the University of Arizona. My training is in Indigenous language revitalization, North American languages and linguistics, and morphosyntactic theory. My current work focuses on nominal morphology in Algonquian and the intersections of linguistics and community language work. 

+ Language Revitalization
+ Community-centered Research & Documentation
+ Languages of North America
+ Algonquian Languages
+ Mayan Languages
+ Sign Languages
+ Morphosyntax
+ Distributed Morphology
+ Reference-tracking & Deixis

Updates

+ October 2024: Revisiting Syncretism in Blackfoot presented at the Algonquian Conference
+ June 2024: CoLang 2024
+ May 2024: Markedness-driven Syncretism in Blackfoot presented at WAIL
+ March 2024: Awarded Bilinski Fellowship for dissertation work in 2024-2025
+ March 2024: Awarded SBS Summer Dissertation Fellowship for Summer 2024 

(Not all work all the time: Photos from a 2022 visit to Iceland)