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Michael Halliday
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Born in Leeds, West Yorkshire
Born on 13rd of April 1925
Died in 000

Born 1925 - English linguist.

Studied Modern Chinese Language and Literature at London University before living in China for three years and returning to take a PhD in Chinese Linguistics at Cambridge. Worked on the semantics and grammar of modern English and developed an internationally influential grammar model, the systemic functional grammar.

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