Barbara C. Scholz and Geoffrey K. Pullum are contemporary philosophers of linguistics known for their critical examinations of foundational issues in generative grammar and the ontology of language. Their collaborative work challenges received views on linguistic nativism, platonism about language, and the argumentative structure of Chomskyan linguistics.
Critiqued Jerrold Katz's argument by elimination for linguistic platonism
Co-authored influential work on the philosophy of linguistics and generative grammar
Challenged poverty-of-the-stimulus arguments for linguistic nativism
Contributed to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on philosophy of linguistics
Advanced model-theoretic approaches to syntactic theory