David M. Perlmutter

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

David M. Perlmutter is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, David M. Perlmutter has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Language and Linguistics, 3 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 2 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in David M. Perlmutter's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 papers) and Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (2 papers). David M. Perlmutter is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 papers) and Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (2 papers). David M. Perlmutter collaborates with scholars based in United States. David M. Perlmutter's co-authors include John C. Moore, Carol Padden, Scott Soames, Frank H. Nuessel, Judith Aissen, John C. Moore, Donna B. Gerdts, Maria Polinsky, Oliver Sacks and Ferenc Kiefer and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Modern Language Journal and Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.

In The Last Decade

David M. Perlmutter

16 papers receiving 891 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Impersonal Passives and the Unaccusative Hypothesis

1978 659 citations David M. Perlmutter Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David M. Perlmutter United States	11	974	365	336	280	260	16	1.2k
Anna Cardinaletti Italy	17	1.0k 1.0×	432 1.2×	331 1.0×	246 0.9×	354 1.4×	106	1.2k
Pamela Munro United States	9	787 0.8×	245 0.7×	353 1.1×	158 0.6×	363 1.4×	38	1.0k
Pamela A. Downing United States	9	517 0.5×	306 0.8×	304 0.9×	208 0.7×	128 0.5×	13	924
Enric Vallduví Sweden	8	701 0.7×	356 1.0×	409 1.2×	147 0.5×	201 0.8×	17	909
Ron Zacharski United States	10	715 0.7×	401 1.1×	466 1.4×	262 0.9×	139 0.5×	18	1.1k
Nancy Hedberg Canada	14	922 0.9×	437 1.2×	592 1.8×	297 1.1×	238 0.9×	28	1.4k
Chung–hye Han Canada	16	841 0.9×	475 1.3×	337 1.0×	153 0.5×	184 0.7×	62	1.2k
Teun Hoekstra Netherlands	13	880 0.9×	352 1.0×	248 0.7×	212 0.8×	286 1.1×	22	1.0k
Knud Lambrecht United States	12	1.7k 1.7×	533 1.5×	761 2.3×	252 0.9×	539 2.1×	20	2.0k
Gregory Ward United States	23	1.3k 1.3×	641 1.8×	900 2.7×	289 1.0×	456 1.8×	58	1.9k

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16 of 16 papers shown

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Aissen, Judith & David M. Perlmutter. (2014). Clause Reduction in Spanish. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 2. 24 indexed citations

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Gerdts, Donna B., John C. Moore, Maria Polinsky, & David M. Perlmutter. (2010). Hypothesis A/hypothesis B : linguistic explorations in honor of David M. Perlmutter. MIT Press eBooks. 39 indexed citations

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Perlmutter, David M. & John C. Moore. (2002). Language-Internal Explanation: The Distribution of Russian Impersonals. Language. 78(4). 619–650. 35 indexed citations

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Moore, John C. & David M. Perlmutter. (2000). What Does It Take To Be A Dative Subject. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 18(2). 373–416. 70 indexed citations

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Perlmutter, David M. & Oliver Sacks. (1991). The Language of the Deaf. 10 indexed citations

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Perlmutter, David M.. (1989). MULTIATTACHMENT AND THE UNACCUSATIVE HYPOTHESIS: THE PERFECT AUXILIARY IN ITALIAN. Probus. 1(1). 49 indexed citations

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Padden, Carol & David M. Perlmutter. (1987). American Sign Language and the architecture of phonological theory. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 5(3). 335–375. 96 indexed citations

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Davies, William D. & David M. Perlmutter. (1984). Recent Developments in Syntactic Theory. American Speech. 59(1). 84–84. 1 indexed citations

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Nuessel, Frank H., David M. Perlmutter, & Scott Soames. (1980). Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English. Modern Language Journal. 64(1). 149–149. 45 indexed citations

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Perlmutter, David M. & Scott Soames. (1979). Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English. 40 indexed citations

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Perlmutter, David M.. (1979). Working 1s and Inversion in Italian, Japanese, and Quechua. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 5. 277–277. 22 indexed citations

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Perlmutter, David M.. (1978). Impersonal Passives and the Unaccusative Hypothesis - eScholarship. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 4(4). 1 indexed citations

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Perlmutter, David M.. (1978). Impersonal Passives and the Unaccusative Hypothesis. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 4. 157–157. 659 indexed citations breakdown →

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Perlmutter, David M., et al.. (1977). Toward a Universal Characterization of Passivization. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 3. 394–394. 127 indexed citations

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Kiefer, Ferenc & David M. Perlmutter. (1974). Syntax und generative Grammatik. 1 indexed citations

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Perlmutter, David M.. (1969). Les pronoms objets en espagnol : un exemple de la nécessité de contraintes de surface en syntaxe. Langages. 4(14). 81–133. 1 indexed citations

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