Books in the The collected works of M.A.K. Halliday series

Professor Halliday addressed the issue of the application of linguistic scholarship for Computational and Quantitative Studies. This volume includes works that span the last five decades, covering topics such as machine translation; the early years; and probalilistic grammar. Halliday was at University of Sydney.

Webster presents an edited collection of works by British linguist, M. A. K. Halliday, written between the 1970s and 1990s, and based on Halliday's intensive study as a participant-observer of his own son, Nigel, and his developing language skills.

Now available in paperback, this eighth volumein the Collected Work Series offers a detailed survey of the Chinese language by eminent linguist M.A.K. Halliday. >

This volume explores the semantic character of scientific discourse and the chapters are organised into two sections, one on grammatical metaphor, the other on scientific English. Halliday was Foundation Professor of Linguistics at University of Sydney.

Covers topics such as transitivity, theme-rheme, mood, and modality in English. This book also presents papers on English intonation and grammar including discussion of word order in English and the complex structures typical of informal spontaneous conversation.