Mario Manuel Bartolo Montalbetti Solari (born 1953 in
Callao
Callao () is a Peruvian seaside city and Regions of Peru, region on the Pacific Ocean in the Lima metropolitan area. Callao is Peru's chief seaport and home to its main airport, Jorge Chávez International Airport. Callao municipality consists ...
) is a Peruvian
syntactician and a
professor
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of
linguistics
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within the Department of Linguistics at the
University of Arizona
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, as well as a
poet
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.
Career
Mario Montalbetti studied Literature in
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (, PUCP) is a private university in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1917 with the support and approval of the Catholic church, being the oldest private institution of higher learning in the country.
The Peru ...
. He holds a
PhD
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in Linguistics from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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. , he holds the title of
Associate Professor
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In the ''North American system'', used in the United States and many other countries, it is a position ...
in the Department of
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas
**Spanish cuisine
**Spanish history
**Spanish culture
...
and
Portuguese at the
University of Arizona
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and is also a member of the faculty of the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) Program and the Center for Latin American Studies. His research interests include
theoretical linguistics
Theoretical linguistics is a term in linguistics that, like the related term general linguistics, can be understood in different ways. Both can be taken as a reference to the theory of language, or the branch of linguistics that inquires into the ...
and
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas
**Spanish cuisine
**Spanish history
**Spanish culture
...
morphology
Morphology, from the Greek and meaning "study of shape", may refer to:
Disciplines
*Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts
*Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies, ...
and
syntax
In linguistics, syntax ( ) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituenc ...
.
Publications
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See also
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Literature of Peru
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Montalbetti sentence
References
External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Montalbetti, Mario
1953 births
Living people
Syntacticians
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
University of Arizona faculty
20th-century Peruvian poets
People from Callao
Peruvian male poets
20th-century Peruvian male writers