Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
John I. Saeed, Semantics, Fifth edition, Hoboken, New Jersey, Wiley-Blackwell, 2023, 1 - 568pp
Leeson, Lorraine and John I. Saeed, Embodiment in Irish Sign Language Passives, Teanga, 2020, p48-66
Semantics: the meaning of words and sentences in, editor(s)Keith Allan , The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics, London, Routledge, 2016, pp153 - 168, [John Saeed]
John Saeed, Semantics., 4th revised edition, Chichester, UK, Wiley Blackwell, 2016, 1 - 486pp
Semantics and pragmatics in, editor(s)Nick Riemer , The Routledge Handbook of Semantics, London, Routledge, 2016, pp177 - 194, [John Saeed]
Semantics, James D. Wright , International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences., 2nd., 21, Oxford, Elsevier, 2015, pp585 - 591, [John Saeed]
Irish Sign Language in, editor(s)Hanson, Julie, Bill McGregor, Goedele De Clerck and Sam Lutalo-Kiingi (eds.) , Sign Languages of the World - A Comparative Handbook, Preston & Berlin, Ishara Press & Mouton de Gruyter, 2015, pp449 - 473, [Lorraine Leeson, John I. Saeed and Carmel Grehan]
Semantics in, editor(s)Natalie Braber, Louise Cummings, Liz Morrish , Exploring Language and Linguistics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp168 - 193, [John Saeed]
Lorraine Leeson and John I. Saeed, Construal of Passives in ISL , University of Paris 8, 16 June 2014, 2014, Dr. Marie Anne Sallandre
Lorraine Leeson and John I. Saeed, Irish Sign Language: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach, Edinburgh, Scotland, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, 244pp
Word Order in, editor(s)Pfau, R., Steinbach, M. and Woll, B. , Sign Language: An International Handbook, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2012, pp245 - 265, [Lorraine Leeson and John Saeed]
The procedure of marking contrast with alternatives: a constraint in the derivation of higher level explicatures in, editor(s)Victoria Escandell-Vidal, Manuel Leonetti and Aoife Ahern , Procedural Meaning: Problems and Perspectives., Biggleswade, UK and New Milford, CT, USA, Emerald Books, 2011, pp293 - 315, [Susana Olmos, Laura Innocenti and John Saeed]
A pragmatic account of the remote definite article in Somali in, editor(s)Mara Frascarelli , A Country Called Somalia: Culture, Language and Society of a Vanishing State, Turin, L'Harmattan Italia, 2011, pp59 - 84, [John Saeed]
Pragmatics and semantics in, editor(s)Wolfram Bublitz, Neal R. Norris , Foundations of Pragmatics, Berlin & Boston, De Gruyter Mouton, 2011, pp461 - 490, [John Saeed]
Entailment, Louise Cummings, The Pragmatics Encylopedia, London, Routledge, 2009, pp144 - 145, [John Saeed]
John Saeed, Semantics, Third edition., Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, 480pp
Semantics, Louise Cummings, The Pragmatics Encyclopedia., London, Routledge, 2009, pp425 - 428, [John Saeed]
Ambiguity, Louise Cummings, The Pragmatics Encylopedia, London, Routledge, 2009, pp7 - 9, [John Saeed]
Conceptual Blending and the Windowing of Attention in Irish Sign Language in, editor(s)M. Vermeerbergen, L. Leeson and O. Crasborn , Simultaneity in Signed Languages, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2007, pp55 - 72, [John Saeed and Lorraine Leeson]
Somali morphology in, editor(s)Alan S. Kaye , Morphologies of Asia and Africa., Winona Lake, Indiana, Eisenbrauns, 2007, pp547 - 586, [John Saeed]
Lorraine Leeson, John Saeed, Alison Macduff, Deirdre Byrne-Dunne and Cormac Leonard, Moving Heads and Moving Hands: Developing a Digital Corpus of Irish Sign Language, Information Technology and Telecommunications Conference 2006, Carlow, Ireland, 25-26 October 2006, Institute of Technology Carlow, 2006, pp33-43
Windowing of Attention in Simultaneous Constructions in Irish Sign Language (ISL) in, editor(s)Terry Cameron, Christopher Shank and Keri Holley , Proceedings of the Fifth Meeting of the High Desert Linguistics Society., Albuquerque, New Mexico, University of New Mexico, 2004, pp1 - 18, [John Saeed, Lorraine Leeson]
The focus structure of Somali in, editor(s)B. Nolan , RRG2004: Proceedings of The International Role and Reference Grammar Conference, Dublin, July 21-25 2004., Dublin, Institute of Technology Blanchardstown., 2004, pp258 - 279, [John Saeed]
Somali , William Frawley, Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Second edition, Vol 4, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003, pp106-9 , [John Saeed, Doug Biber]
John Saeed, Semantics, 2nd, Oxford, Blackwell, 2003, vii - 413pp
Somali, Jane Garry, Carl Rubino, Alice Faber and Robert French, Facts about the World's Languages: an Encyclopedia of the World's Major Languages, Past and Present., New York, H. W. Wilson Press, 2001, pp675-679 , [John Saeed]
Semantics, N.J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, First edition, Oxford, Pergamon Press, 2001, pp13881-87 , [John Saeed]
John Saeed, The Functions of Focus in Somali, Lingua Posnaniensis, XLII, 2000, p133-143
John I Saeed, Semantics, Beijing, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press., 2000
John Saeed, Lorraine Leeson, Detransitivisation in Irish Sign Language, Intersign, 1999
John Saeed, Somali., First edition, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 1999, i - 295pp
Head-Marking and Pronominal Clitics in Somali in, editor(s)R.J. Hayward and I.M. Lewis , Voice and Power: The Culture of Language in the Horn of Africa, London, Taylor & Francis, 1996, pp37-50 , [John Saeed]
John Saeed, The Semantics of the Middle Voice in Somali, African Languages and Cultures, 8, (1), 1995, p61-86
John Saeed, Syntactic Typology and "Free Word Order" in Cushitic, Teanga, 14, 1994, p58-75
John Saeed, Adpositional Clitics and Word Order in Somali , Transactions of the Philological Society, 91, (1), 1993, p63-93
John Saeed, Somali Reference Grammar., 2nd revised edition, Kensington, Maryland, Dunwoody Press, 1993, 1 - 336pp
Dialect Variation in Somali in, editor(s)Hussein M. Adam and Charles L. Geshekter , Proceedings of the First International Congress of Somali Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, Scholars Press, 1992, pp464-90 , [John Saeed]
John Saeed, R.C. Abraham and Somali Grammar: Tone, Derivational Morphology and Information Structure, African Languages and Cultures, Supplement 1, 1992, p111 -24
A Bibliography of Somali linguistics in, editor(s)B.W. Andrzejewski and C. Geshekter , A Handbook of Somali Studies, London, School of Oriental & African Studies, 1990, [John Saeed]
John Saeed, Morphological Causatives and Verbal Argument Structure in Somali, Proceedings of the second international symposium on Cushitic and Omotic languages, The second international symposium on Cushitic and Omotic languages, Naples, Italy, 16-18 November, 1989, edited by G. Banti , Istituto Universitario Orientale, 1989, pp1 - 15
An Argument for the Category Adjective in Somali in, editor(s)M. Bechhaus-Gerst and F. Serzisko , Cushitic-Omotic: Papers from the International Symposium on Cushitic and Omotic Languages, Cologne, January 6-9, 1986, Hamburg, Helmut Buske Verlag, 1988, pp567-579 , [John Saeed]
The Languages of Northern and North-Eastern Africa in, editor(s)M.Mann and D. Dalby , A Thesaurus of African Languages, London, Hans Zell, 1987, pp11 - 13, [John Saeed]
John Saeed, Somali Reference Grammar, Wheaton, MD, Dunwoody Press, 1987, 275pp
John Saeed, The Syntax of Focus and Topic in Somali. , First edition., Amsterdam and Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 1985, 1 - 234pp
Noun phrase focus in Somali and Dirayta in, editor(s)T. Labahn , Proceedings of the Second International Conference of Somali Studies, Hamburg, August 1983, Hamburg, Helmut Buske, 1984, pp1 - 21, [John Saeed, R.J. Hayward]
John Saeed, The syntactic status of quantifiers in Somali, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 45, (3), 1982, p525 - 545
John Saeed, Language Reform in Somalia: the official adoption of a vernacular, Journal of Research on North-East Africa, 1, (2), 1982, p95 - 107
Philip Baker, Abdulaay Bari, David Dalby, Sidia Jatta, Michael Mann and John Saeed. , Writing African Languages: The Search for a Uniform Script. , First edition., London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1982
John I. Saeed, Central Somali - a Grammatical Outline, Afroasiatic Linguistics, 8, (2), 1982, p1 - 43
Research Expertise
Recognition
Awards and Honours
Fellow of Trinity College Dublin
Senior Fellow of Trinity College
Memberships
International Cognitive Linguistics Association
Association for Linguistic Typology
Linguistics Association of Great Britain
Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
Linguistic Society of America