Reference & Research Book News, August 2006

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This I the sixth volume from the collected works of Professor M. A. K. Halliday that runs into ten volumes. Professor Halliday has had a lifelong engagement with language and these volumes represent the outcome... the early articles continue to be relevant and not only from a historical point of view. This unusual book displays Professor Halliday's different concerns and endeavor to give linguistics, particularly, probabilistic corpus studies, a central role in MT. While illuminating the developments, he provides insights and likages with different contemporary subjects. On reading the book, the reader cannot but feel that it is only on the development of a comprehensive theory of meaning that computational linguistics can finally come into its own.

LinguistList

'These four volumes (4, 5, 6 and 7) venture into remarkably diverse fields. How one man could master the minutiae of all these areas of linguistic research is a matter for wonder and admiration. As a linguistic polymath, Halliday far outstrips all contemporaries...One need look for no further explanation of Halliday's current stature as doyen of British linguistics. The publication of Halliday's complete papers is an important contribution to scholarly documentation.' 

Roy Harris, Times Literary Supplement