Laura Kalin

Laura Kalin is the Acting Director of the Program in Linguistics at Princeton University since Fall 2024, having previously served as Associate Director from Fall 2023. She is an Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Council of the Humanities and joined Princeton in 2016. Her full name is Laura Kalin, and she holds a Ph.D. from UCLA (2014). She is based at Green Hall (1-S-4C/1-S-19) and can be reached via lkalin@princeton.edu.

Her research focuses on syntax and morphology in understudied and endangered languages, particularly Neo-Aramaic (e.g., Turoyo, Senaya, and Adıyaman Kurmanji), Austroasiatic (Nancowry), Austronesian (Malagasy), and Carib (Hixkaryana) languages. Key research themes include allomorphy, infixation, nominal licensing, agreement systems, and the interplay between morphosyntax and phonology. She also explores root-and-pattern morpho-phono-syntactic structures in languages like Malagasy and Turoyo.

Laura’s research contributions span formal linguistic theory, typology, and fieldwork-based analysis. Recent work emphasizes cyclic morphosyntax-phonology interactions and morphological opacity across languages. She has published in major journals such as NLLT and Glossa, and her website (www.laurakalin.com) provides further details on her work.

No scientific awards are explicitly listed in the provided texts. Her advising and grant activities remain unreported here. She is affiliated with the Program in Linguistics, the Humanities Council, and the Joseph Henry House at Princeton.