Samantha Prins
Samantha Prins
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Linguistics
University of Arizona
Curriculum Vitae (Spring 2026)
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
+ Sycnretism
+ Feature Systems
+ Distributed Morphology
Updates
+ February 2026: Indigenous Languages of the Americas & Their Structures: Sounds published (open-access link)
+ July 2025: Foundational Approaches to Celtic Linguistics published (open-access link)
+ January 2025: Elected to the CoLang Advisory Circle
+ June 2024: CoLang 2024 held in Phoenix, AZ
+ 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)