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About Paul Postal
- 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.
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