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Paul Postal

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Biography
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Paul Martin Postal (born November 10, 1936 in Weehawken, New Jersey) is an American linguist and member of the faculty of New York University. Postal received his PhD from Yale University in 1963. He taught at MIT until 1965, then took a research position at IBM where he remained until 1994

An important figure in the early development of generative grammar, he became a proponent of the generative semantics movement along with George Lakoff, and James D. McCawley.

Since his involvement with generative semantics, he has remained a vocal critic of Noam Chomsky and work done in Chomsky's frameworks.^[1]

Biography

Postal received his PhD from Yale University in 1963 and taught at MIT until 1965. That year, he moved to the City University of New York. In 1967 he was appointed to a research position at IBM and he remained on their research staff until 1994.

An important figure in the early development of generative grammar, he became a proponent of the generative semantics movement along with George Lakoff, and James D. McCawley. In the 1970s, with David M. Perlmutter, he developed Relational Grammar. Later, with David E. Johnson, he developed Arc Pair Grammar. These non-transformational theories of grammar have had an indirect but major impact on modern syntactic analysis.

Since his involvement with generative semantics, he has remained a vocal critic of Noam Chomsky and work done in Chomsky's frameworks.^[1]

Selected bibliography

Postal, Paul M. (1968). Aspects of phonological theory. New York: Harper & Row. {{ISBN|978-0-06-045248-3}}
Postal, Paul M. (1972). "The best theory". In S. Peters (Ed.), Goals of linguistic theory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. {{ISBN|978-0-13-357095-3}}
Postal, Paul M. (1974) On Raising: One Rule of English Grammar and Its Theoretical Implications. Cambridge: MIT Press. {{ISBN|978-0-26-266041-9}}
Johnson, David E.; & Postal, Paul M. (1980). Arc pair grammar. Princeton: Princeton University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-608-03341-9}}
Culicover, P. W., & Postal, Paul M. (2000). Parasitic gaps. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. {{ISBN|978-0-262-03284-1}}
Postal, Paul M. (2003). "Policing the Content of Linguistic Examples". Language. 79 (1), 182-188.
Postal, Paul M. Skeptical linguistic essays (Oxford University Press, USA, 2004). {{ISBN|978-0-19-516671-2}}

References

1. ^¹Harris, Randy Allen (1993). The Linguistics Wars. Oxford: OUP. {{ISBN|978-0-19-509834-1}}

External links

Paul M. Postal homepage (NYU)
Noam Chomsky and the Quest for Social Justice, criticism of Chomsky by Postal

5 : 1936 births|Living people|Linguists from the United States|Syntacticians|New York University faculty

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