Welcome!

I am a PhD student in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Linguistics. I am affiliated with the Language Contact and Cognition Lab and the XMorph Lab. My research interests are centered around morphology in multilinguals’ grammars and, more broadly, language contact situations. I am co-advised by Marlyse Baptista and David Embick.

I can be best reached at pristina[at]sas[dot]upenn[dot]edu, or you can use this link.

Upcoming & Recent Events

• Presentation at SLE 58: Expansion of Betawi ber–nya Nominaliation Under Prolonged Contact with Indonesian. Presentation at SLE 58 (Workshop 13: Morphological Boundaries in Creole Languages), 26-29 August 2025, Bordeaux, France.
• Presentation at SEALS 34: Pristina Koon. Comparing the pronominal paradigms of two Malayophone Creoles – Manado Malay and Betawi. Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 34), 10-13 June 2025, Bali, Indonesia (Virtual talk).

Research Interests

• Language contact
• Bi/multilingualism
• Distributed Morphology
• Morphological processing
• Mixed languages & Creolistics
• Diasporic language use & diasporic language contact

My Name

Although I was named after the capital of Kosova/o, my parents adopted an Americanized pronunciation, so my first name is pronounced [prɪˈstinə] or pris-teen-ah. My surname/family name is represented by the Chinese character 官. You can listen to the variations of its pronunciation here, but the Hakka one is the most applicable to my family.