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Michael Halliday

1925 - 2018

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Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M. A. K. Halliday; 13 April 1925 – 15 April 2018) was a British linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model of language. His grammatical descriptions go by the name of systemic functional grammar. Halliday described language as a semiotic system, "not in the sense of a system of signs, but a systemic resource for meaning". For Halliday, language was a "meaning potential"; by extension, he defined linguistics as the study of "how people exchange meanings by 'languaging'". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Halliday is the 28th most popular linguist (up from 98th in 2019), the 858th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,282nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Michael Halliday ranks 28 out of 214. Before him are Antoine Meillet, Johann Martin Schleyer, Algirdas Julien Greimas, William Jones, Johann Christoph Adelung, and Sibawayh. After him are Otto Jespersen, Pompeu Fabra, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Ignác Goldziher, Bedřich Hrozný, and Louis Hjelmslev.

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Among people born in 1925, Michael Halliday ranks 70. Before him are Andrea Camilleri, Robert Venturi, Oliver Smithies, John Tate, Wong Fei-hung, and Jean Tinguely. After him are Joshua Lederberg, Frei Otto, Tom Gehrels, John Pople, John Cocke, and Celia Cruz. Among people deceased in 2018, Michael Halliday ranks 59. Before him are Gudrun Burwitz, Robert Venturi, R. Lee Ermey, Shoko Asahara, Osamu Shimomura, and Stéphane Audran. After him are Reynaldo Bignone, Francis Lai, Wim Kok, Claude Lanzmann, Tsukasa Hosaka, and Milena Dravić.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Halliday ranks 858 out of 8,785. Before him are H. Rider Haggard (1856), Sean Bean (1959), Charles Frederick Worth (1825), John Nelson Darby (1800), J. Bruce Ismay (1862), and Christopher Tolkien (1924). After him are John Vane (1927), Amélie of Orléans (1865), David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (1961), Glenda Jackson (1936), James Joseph Sylvester (1814), and Mike Hawthorn (1929).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, Michael Halliday ranks 2. Before him are William Jones (1746). After him are Robert Morrison (1782), Henry Watson Fowler (1858), Daniel Jones (1881), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), John Chadwick (1920), John Florio (1553), James Legge (1815), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), John Lyons (1932), and Henry Sweet (1845).

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