Samantha Prins
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Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Linguistics
University of Arizona
Curriculum Vitae (Fall 2025)
About Me
I am a PhD candidate at the University of Arizona where I study language revitalization and morphosyntactic theory with an emphasis on Indigenous American languages. My current work focuses on nominal morphology in Algonquian and the intersections of linguistics and community language work.
+ Language Revitalization
+ Community-based Research & Documentation
+ Algonquian Languages
+ Mayan Languages
+ Sign Languages
+ Morphosyntax
+ Inflection
+ Distributed Morphology
+ Feature Systems
Updates
+ October 2025: Revisiting syncretism in Algonquian presented at the Algonquian Conference in Winnipeg
+ July 2025: Foundational Approaches to Celtic Linguistics published (available via Language Science Press)
+ April 2025: Pluractional Gestures in Kaqchikel and Highland Maya Sign Language presented at SAIL in Tucson
+ January 2025: Elected to the CoLang Advisory Circle
+ October 2024: Revisiting Syncretism in Blackfoot presented at the Algonquian Conference in Oklahoma City
+ June 2024: CoLang 2024!
+ May 2024: Markedness-driven Syncretism in Blackfoot presented at WAIL in Santa Barbara
+ 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)
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