Mário A. Perini

Mário Alberto Perini (born in 1943) is a Brazilian linguist known mainly for his work on the description of Brazilian Portuguese.^[1][2] He is professor emeritus at the Federal University of Minas Gerais;^[3] he has also taught at the University of Illinois and at the University of Mississippi.^[4][5] In 2021, Perini was elected Honorary Member of the Brazilian Linguistics Association.^[6]

Mário A. Perini
Born	1943 (age 81–82)
Education	Federal University of Minas Gerais, University of Texas at Austin
Known for	works on the description of Brazilian Portuguese
Scientific career
Fields	Linguistics
Institutions	Federal University of Minas Gerais
Thesis	A Grammar of Portuguese Infinitives  (1974)
Doctoral advisor	C. L. Baker
Website	lattes.cnpq.br/0127519070588616

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)