David M. Perlmutter (born 1938) is an American
linguist and professor emeritus in Linguistics at the
University of California, San Diego. He is a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the
Linguistic Society of America and served as president of the Linguistic Society in 2000.
Perlmutter received a PhD in 1968 at MIT under
Noam Chomsky with a thesis titled ''Deep and surface constraints in syntax''.
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