Michael Halliday (born
1925) is a
linguist who developed a grammar model, the
systemic functional grammar, originally by studing
Chinese. His work was an elaboration of the foundations laid by his British teacher
J. R. Firth. His seminal paper on this model was published in
1961. The model has been applied to other languages as well as Chinese. It is especially useful for describing non-
Indo-European languages.
He received the status of emeritus professor of the University of Sydney and the Macquarie University in 1987.
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