Background
HALLIDAY, Michael Alexander Kirkwood was born on April 13, 1925 in Leeds. Son of Wilfrid J. Halliday and Winifred Kirkwood.
HALLIDAY, Michael Alexander Kirkwood was born on April 13, 1925 in Leeds. Son of Wilfrid J. Halliday and Winifred Kirkwood.
Rugby School and University of London and Cambridge.
Assistant lecturer in Chinese, University of Cambridge 1954-1958. Lecturer, then Reader, in Linguistics, University of Edinburgh 1958-1963. Director Communication Research Centre, University College London 1963-1970, Reader in General Linguistics 1963-1965, Professor 1965-1970.
Visiting appointments and fellowships in United States of America and Kenya 1971-1973.
Professor, of Linguistics, University of 111. at Chicago Circle 1973-1975, University of Essex 1974-1975, University of Sydney 1976-1987, Professor Emeritus since 1988. Numerous visiting appointments, consultancies, et cetera
Philological Society (United Kingdom), Linguistic Society of America, Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, Australian Linguistics Society.
Married 1st Patricia Woolf in 1952, one son one daughter. Married 2nd Brenda P. Stephen in 1961, one daughter. Married 3rd Ruqaiya Hasan in 1967, one son.