Nadine Abdel‑Rahman
About Me
I am a second-year PhD student in Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz, working under the supervision of Roumyana Pancheva. My research interests lie in syntax and its interfaces with lexical and formal semantics, in addition to micro and macro comparative syntax. Topics I work on (past and present) include tense, aspect, modality (TAM), clausal architecture, mirativity, and superlatives . My research draws on data from the dialects of Palestinian Arabic.
Prior to joining UC Santa Cruz, I received an MA in Linguistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where I was supervised by Nora Boneh.
Research
My past and main ongoing projects focus on tense, aspect, modality, perspective, and evidentiality in Palestinian Arabic, examining how future-oriented and near-future meanings are grammatically encoded across dialects. I also work on superlative and comparative constructions and on the role of definiteness in Palestinian Arabic.
Publications & Manuscripts
- Abdel-Rahman, Nadine. 2026. Packaging Bi-eventivity in a Mono-Clausal Structure. In Faruk Akkus (ed.), Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics, Vol. XXXVI. John Benjamins. (To appear) [PDF]
- Abdel-Rahman, Nadine. 2026. Multi-Verb Constructions in Palestinian Arabic. In Roland Pfau, Beyza Sumer & Cornelia Loos (eds.), Serial Predicates across Languages. Language Science Press. (To appear) [PDF]
Teaching
University of California, Santa Cruz
- Fall 2025 — Syntax I (TA), Instructor: Roumyana Pancheva
- Winter 2026 — Introduction to Linguistics (TA), Instructor: Andrew Angeles
- Spring 2026 — Syntax II (TA), Instructor: Ivy Sichel
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 2023 — Academic Writing in Hebrew (Instructor), Preparatory Program, Rothberg International School
- 2021 — Structure and Meaning (TA), Instructors: Malka Rappoport Hovav & Aynat Rubinstein
Talks & Posters
Curriculum Vitae
Contact
Email: naabdelr@ucsc.edu