"British-Australian linguist" . . . . "1925-04-13Z"^^ . . . . . . "1925Z"^^ . . "Halliday, Michael"@en . "Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday"@en . "Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M.A.K. Halliday) (born 13 April 1925) is a British-born Australian linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistic model of language. His grammatical descriptions go by the name of systemic functional grammar (SFG). Halliday describes language as a semiotic system, \"not in the sense of a system of signs, but a systemic resource for meaning\"."@en . . . . .