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John Saeed

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John Ibrahim Saeed
EducationSOAS (PhD)
AwardsFellow of Trinity College Dublin
Scientific career
Fieldslinguistics
InstitutionsTrinity College Dublin
ThesisFocus and topic in Somali (1982)
Doctoral advisorRuth Kempson
Other academic advisorsB. W. Andrzejewski, Richard Hayward, Francesco Antinucci, Fritz Serzisko, Mary Macintosh, Halimah Awang

John Ibrahim Saeed is a British linguist and professor emeritus at the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences at Trinity College Dublin. He is best known for his works on Somali language and semantics.[1][2][3] He is a Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin.

Books

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  • Semantics, 5th edition, 2023. Wiley-Blackwell
  • Irish Sign Language: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach, with Lorraine Leeson, 2012, Edinburgh University Press
  • Somali, 1999, John Benjamin
  • Somali Reference Grammar, 1987, Dunwoody Press.
  • The Syntax of Focus and Topic in Somali, 1984, H. Buske.

References

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  1. ^ Appleyard, David L. (February 1990). "Saeed John Ibrahim: Somali reference grammar, xiv, 275 pp. Wheaton, Maryland: Dunwoody Press, 1987. $27". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 53 (1): 189–190. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00021923. ISSN 1474-0699. S2CID 162440775.
  2. ^ Burley, Lynn (2004). "Semantics (review)". Language. 80 (3): 634–635. doi:10.1353/lan.2004.0115. ISSN 1535-0665. S2CID 210072796.
  3. ^ Abbott, Barbara (September 2005). "SEMANTICS (2nd ed.)". Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 27 (3): 465–466. doi:10.1017/S0272263105210203. ISSN 1470-1545. S2CID 55405781.