Samantha Prins
Samantha Prins
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Linguistics
University of Arizona
Curriculum Vitae (Spring 2025)
About Me
I am a PhD candidate at the University of Arizona. My training is in Indigenous language revitalization and morphosyntactic theory with an emphasis on North American languages. 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
+ January 2025: Elected to the CoLang Advisory Circle
+ October 2024: Presented Revisiting Syncretism in Blackfoot at the Algonquian Conference in Oklahoma City
+ 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)