John Saeed

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

• 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.