Nadine Abdel‑Rahman
About Me
I am a second-year PhD student in Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz, working under the supervision of Prof. 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 superlative constructions. 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 Prof. Nora Boneh.
Research
My current research investigates superlative-like constructions in Palestinian Arabic. I examine the role of morphological and semantic definiteness in giving rise to either an absolute or a relative reading, and entertain the possibility that the mapping to meaning arises from a genuine syntax–semantics ambiguity, rather than a purely pragmatic analysis.
Publications & Manuscripts
- 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. (submitted)
- Abdel-Rahman, Nadine. 2026. Packaging Bi-eventivity in a Mono-Clausal Structure. In Faruk Akkus (ed.), Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics, Vol. XXXVI. John Benjamins. (submitted)
Teaching
University of California, Santa Cruz
- Fall 2025 — Syntax I (TA), Instructor: Prof. Roumyana Pancheva
- Winter 2026 — Introduction to Linguistics (TA), Instructor: Prof. Roumyana Pancheva
- Spring 2026 — Syntax II (TA), Instructor: Prof. Ivy Sichel
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 2023 — Academic Writing in Hebrew (Instructor), Preparatory Program, Rothberg International School
- 2021 — Structure and Meaning (TA), Instructors: Prof. Malka Rappoport Hovav & Prof. Aynat Rubinstein
Talks & Posters
- 2023 — “Packaging Bi-eventivity in a Monoclausal Structure”, The 36th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Curriculum Vitae
Contact
Email: naabdelr@ucsc.edu
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