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American linguist
Paul Martin Postal (born November 10, 1936, in
Weehawken ,
New Jersey ) is an American linguist.
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 ,
James D. McCawley , and
Haj Ross . 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 been a vocal critic of
Noam Chomsky and work done in Chomsky's frameworks.
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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, US, 2004).
ISBN
978-0-19-516671-2
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