1947 – 2007
Barbara C. Scholz (1947–2007) was an American philosopher of linguistics who worked on the foundations of generative grammar, nativism, and the philosophy of linguistic science. With Geoffrey K. Pullum, she produced influential critiques of poverty-of-the-stimulus arguments and of platonist conceptions of language.
Co-authored influential critiques of poverty-of-the-stimulus arguments with Geoffrey K. Pullum
Contributed to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on philosophy of linguistics
Challenged Jerrold Katz's argument by elimination for linguistic platonism
Advanced empiricist and model-theoretic approaches to syntactic theory
Shaped contemporary debates on linguistic nativism and learnability