Dr. Basem Al-Raba’a holds a dual Ph.D. in Linguistics and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from Indiana University Bloomington (2017, USA). He completed his MA in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University Bloomington (2013, USA), his MA in Linguistics at Yarmouk University (2009, Jordan), and his BA in English Language at Yarmouk University (2004, Jordan).
His main area of research is Arabic syntax, but his work also focuses on the morphosyntax-semantics interface. He has been particularly working on reflexivity, reciprocality, transitivity, theta and Case marking, and participles. Other areas of interest include Arabic phonology and sociolinguistics.
Dr. Al-Raba’a teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, such as Language and its structure I: Phonetics and Phonology, Language and its structure II: Morphology and Syntax, Introduction to Language and Society, and Language Analysis for Language Instructors: Formal and Functional Grammars.