Mário Alberto Perini (born in 1943) is a Brazilian linguist known mainly for his work on the description of

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. He is professor emeritus at the

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; he has also taught at the

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and at the

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. In 2021, Perini was elected Honorary Member of the Brazilian Linguistics Association.

Selected works

* ''Gramática do Infinitivo Português'' (1977) * ''Para uma nova gramática do português'' (1985) * ''Sintaxe portuguesa: metodologia e funções'' (1989) * ''Gramática descritiva do português'' (1995) * ''Sofrendo a gramática: ensaios sobre a linguagem'' (1997) * ''Modern Portuguese: A reference grammar'' (2002) * ''A língua do Brasil amanhã e outros mistérios'' (2004) * ''Princípios de linguística descritiva: introdução ao pensamento gramatical'' (2006) * ''Estudos de gramática descritiva: as valências verbais'' (2008) * ''Gramática do português brasileiro'' (2010) * ''Describing verb valency: practical and theoretical issues'' (2015) * ''Gramática descritiva do português brasileiro'' (2016) * ''Thematic Relations: A Study in the Grammar-Cognition Interface'' (2019) * ''Function and Class in Linguistic Description: The Taxonomic Foundations of Grammar'' (2021)

References

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