David M. Perlmutter

{{short description|American linguist}}

David M. Perlmutter (born 1938) is an American linguist and professor emeritus in Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego.{{cite web|title=Emeriti Faculty|publisher=Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego|url=http://ling.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/emeriti.html|accessdate=10 May 2018}} 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.{{cite web|title=Speaker Biographical Sketches|publisher=Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny|url=https://carta.anthropogeny.org/sites/default/files/file_fields/event/Bios_How_Language_Evolves.pdf|accessdate=10 May 2018}}{{cite web|title=Presidents|publisher=Linguistic Society of America|url=https://www.linguisticsociety.org/about/who-we-are/presidents|accessdate=10 May 2018}}

Perlmutter received a PhD in 1968 at MIT under Noam Chomsky with a thesis titled Deep and surface constraints in syntax.{{cite thesis |last1=Perlmutter |first1=David M |title=Deep and surface constraints in syntax |url=https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/13003 |website=DSpace |date=1968 |hdl=1721.1/13003 |access-date=1 April 2023}}