Talk:Michael Halliday

message: This person sounds remarkable, but perhaps his feats should speak for themselves in the article.  The current essay, from "his seminal paper" to his being "one of the pioneers" and in between, comes across strangely like fan-mail.  The article states that "he is concerned with."...  His work might be "concerned with" this or that, but we will never know what concerns him. --Smokefoot (talk) 16:44, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Peacocky article

message: The quote below is ungrammatical, but it is in quotation marks, so I can't edit without reference to the source.  Is this actually the correct form:
"imaginary problems were created by the whole series of dichotomies that Chomsky introduced, or took over unproblematized: not only syntax/semantics but also grammar/lexis, language/thought, competence/performance...Once these dichotomies had been set up, the problem arose of locating and maintaining the boundaries between them linguistics"
There's no clear relationship of the word "linguistics" to what precedes it.  A preposition is probably missing, perhaps "in" or "within."zadignose (talk) 09:10, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Meanwhile resolved. No preposition was missing; the word "linguistics" was extraneous.--Frans Fowler (talk) 04:24, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please correct this quote 

message: Substituted at 23:52, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: Until 6 April 2008, the lead paragraph read, "Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M.A.K. Halliday) (born 1925) is an English linguist..." It was then edited to read, "... is an Australian linguist..." (and subsequently to "...is a British-born Australian linguist..."). No reference has been provided for the proposition that Halliday is Australian. Is there any reason why "English" should not be restored? --Frans Fowler (talk) 04:15, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Changed to "from England", but retained Australian linguist tag for the time being--Frans Fowler (talk) 06:23, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australian linguist 

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thread_title:  External links modified (January 2018) 

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The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) CLYDE TALK TO ME/STUFF DONE (please mention me on reply) 22:37, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 6 June 2023 

message: Are there possibly any defects or shortcomings of M.A.K Halliday's systemic functional grammar that a student should know about? 197.211.53.10 (talk) 13:47, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Systemic Functional Grammar