Sunday, April 15 was a sad day for the linguistics community because this was when Michael Halliday died. Halliday was known for his grammatical description called Systemic Functional Grammar, or SFG.

Although far too modest to admit it, Emeritus Professor Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday, who has died at Manly aged 93, extended the work of Charles Darwin and Karl Marx by drawing the study of ...

Michael Halliday, who has died at 93, was a Leeds native who became an internationally revered figure in the world of modern linguistics. Having created the theory of language known as Systemic ...