Traditionally, grammar has always been a grammar of written… - Michael Halliday

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Traditionally, grammar has always been a grammar of written language: and it has always been a product grammar" ['Product' is here used as one term of the Hjelmslevian pair process/product.] A process/product distinction is a relevant one for linguists because it corresponds to that between our experience of speech and our experience of writing: writing exists whereas speech happens.

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Michael Alexander Kirkwood (M.A.K.) Halliday (13 April 1925 – 15 April 2018) was a British linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistic model of language.

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Alternative Names: Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday • M. A. K. Halliday • Prof. Michael A. K. Halliday

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