b. 1936
Paul Martin Postal is an American linguist known for his contributions to transformational grammar and later for developing Metagraph Grammar with David E. Johnson. He has been a prominent critic of Chomskyan generative linguistics and has written extensively on the philosophical foundations of linguistic theory, including the ontological status of linguistic objects.
Co-developed Relational Grammar with David M. Perlmutter
Co-authored Arc Pair Grammar and Metagraph Grammar frameworks
Authored influential critiques of Chomskyan generative linguistics
Contributed to debates on linguistic platonism and the ontology of language
Published 'Skeptical Linguistic Essays' challenging mainstream generative assumptions