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.