Michael Halliday

Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M.A.K. Halliday; 13 April 1925 – 15 April 2018) was an English-born linguist. He developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistic model of language. His grammatical works go by the name of systemic functional grammar (SFG).^[1]

Michael Halliday
Halliday at his 90th-birthday symposium, 2015
Born	Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (1925-04-13)13 April 1925 Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Died	15 April 2018(2018-04-15) (aged 93) Sydney, Australia
Nationality	English
Known for	Systemic functional linguistics
Spouse	Ruqaiya Hasan
Scientific career
Fields	Linguistics
Influences	Vilém Mathesius (Prague school) Wang Li, J.R. Firth, Benjamin Lee Whorf
Influenced	Ruqaiya Hasan, C.M.I.M. Matthiessen, J.R. Martin, Norman Fairclough

Halliday described himself as a generalist, meaning that he has tried "to look at language from every possible vantage point", and has described his work as "wander[ing] the highways and byways of language".^[2]

He was elected a foreign member of the Academia Europaea in 1994.^[3]

Halliday died in Sydney of natural causes on 15 April 2018 at the age of 93.^[4]