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.

Legon Journal of the Humanities, Vol. 36, No. 1 (2025), pp. 1-33 (33 pages) Using Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) theory and modality framework, this study investigates linguistic ...

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 ...