Samantha Prins

About Samantha Prins

My name is Samantha Prins—please feel welcome to call me Sam (she/her). I am a second-year PhD student focusing on language revitalization, morphology and syntax. In particular, my research interests include Indigenous languages of North America, issues in language documentation and vitality, morphosyntax, discourse, and the intersections of language and identity.

I hold an MA in Linguistics from the University of Montana and a BA in Linguistics and Spanish from Western Washington University. Before coming to the University of Arizona, I served as the program coordinator for the Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) 2020 at the University of Montana.

Projects

Indigenous Languages of the Americas and their Structures (ILAS) 2021-current

Shifting Pedagogies for Navajo Language: Applying a Mentor-Apprenctice Paradigm through Technology (PI: Aresta Tsosie-Paddock) 2021-current

Mutsun Text Collection Project (Supervisor: Natasha Warner) Spring 2022

Mʉ͂te͂a͂ Working Group (Advisor: Wilson de Lima Silva) Spring 2021

Symposium for American Indian Languages (SAIL) Organizing Committee Spring 2021

Research Interests

• Language documentation, maintenence and revitalization
• Community-based research methodologies
• North American languages and linguistics
• Algonquian languages
• Salishan languages
• Bantu languages
• Morphosyntax
• Distributed Morphology
• Polysynthesis
• Deixis and reference-tracking
• Temporal & aspectual systems
• Language and identity

Selected Publications

Bar-el, Leora, Megan Stark, and Samantha Prins. 2021. Resources for and about Indigenous Languages: Examining Online Collections. Sustaining Indigenous Languages: Connecting Communities, Teachers and Scholars, ed. by Lisa Crowshoe, Inge Genee, Mahaliah Peddle, Joslin Smith, and Conor Snoek, 141–155. Northern Arizona University.

Prins, Samantha. 2019. Final vowel devoicing in Blackfoot. [MA Thesis.] University of Montana Dissertations, Theses, and Professional Papers.