David M. Perlmutter
David M. Perlmutter | |
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| Born | October 28, 1938 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Known for | Relational grammar Unaccusative Hypothesis |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1977) President of the Linguistic Society of America (2000) Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2013) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (A.B.) MIT (Ph.D.) |
| Noam Chomsky | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguistics |
Sub-discipline | Syntax, grammatical relations, sign language phonology |
| Institutions | MIT Brandeis University University of California, San Diego |
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alma_mater which should be merged into education.David Michael Perlmutter (born 28 October 1938) is an American linguist and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. He served as president of the Linguistic Society of America in 2000. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.
Perlmutter is best known as co-founder, with Paul Postal, of relational grammar, a syntactic framework that treats grammatical relations such as subject and object as primitive notions rather than as derivatives of phrase structure.