About John Saeed
John Saeed was a British linguist and university teacher.
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. He is a Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin.
Books 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.
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