Zeki Hamawand is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Kirkuk University and a senior lecturer at Sulaimaniya University, Iraq. His main research interests involve the overlapping fields of morphology, lexicology, syntax and semantics, and he has published several books, textbooks and articles on these topics. His scholarly books include Atemporal Complement Clauses in English: A Cognitive Grammar Analysis (2002), Suffixal Rivalry in Adjective Formation: A Cognitive-Corpus Analysis (2007), Morpho-Lexical Alternation in Noun Formation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), and The Semantics of English Negative Prefixes (2009). His textbooks include Morphology in English: Word Formation in Cognitive Grammar (2011), Semantics: A Cognitive Account of Linguistic Meaning (2016), and Modern Schools of Linguistic Thought: A Crash Course (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).