Ahmed Abdullahi Mohamud

Rethinking approaches to Somali Studies: a narrative review of anthropological, Marxist, revisionist, and comprehensive perspectives

Somali Studies has developed over more than a century into a multidisciplinary field encompassing history, anthropology, sociology, political science, linguistics, religious studies, transnational studies and diaspora studies. Despite this breadth, the field has been shaped dispr...

Multilingual hybridization in Somali noun phrases: Morphosyntactic integration of Arabic, English, and Italian borrowings across written, spoken, and dspoken and digital registers

This study explores hybridization in Somali noun phrases by analyzing the structural, morphological, and sociolinguistic processes involved in the integration of foreign lexical items into Somali syntactic frames. Drawing on written texts, spoken discourse, and diaspora digital c...

Genitive constructions across Somali dialects: Northern, Benadiri, and Maay

This study examines genitive constructions across Northern Somali (Maxaa Tiri), Benadiri, and Maay, addressing the limited comparative evidence on dialectal variation in Somali nominal possession. A comparative descriptive design was employed using elicited examples, translation...