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.
John Ibrahim Saeed | |
|---|---|
| Education | SOAS (PhD) |
| Awards | Fellow of Trinity College Dublin |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | linguistics |
| Institutions | Trinity College Dublin |
| Thesis | Focus and topic in Somali (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ruth Kempson |
| Other academic advisors | B. W. Andrzejewski, Richard Hayward, Francesco Antinucci, Fritz Serzisko, Mary Macintosh, Halimah Awang |
Books
edit- 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
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Burley, Lynn (2004). "Semantics (review)". Language. 80 (3): 634–635. doi:10.1353/lan.2004.0115. ISSN 1535-0665. S2CID 210072796.
- ^ 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.