__NOTOC__ Luís Filipe Lindley Cintra (5 March 1925 – 18 August 1991) was a prominent figure in Portuguese

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and

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. A prolific writer with over 80 published works, he was a keen student of the historical differentiation during the 14th and 15th centuries between literary Portuguese and

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(1958).Ivo Castro
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''Figuras da Cultura Portuguesa'', Instituto Camões, 2006. Accessed 2011-02-22. Another special interest was the relationship between Galician and

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, as evinced by his study of the dialects of

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(1990) and his plan, together with Manuel de Paiva Boléo and José G. Herculano de Carvalho, for a linguistic-ethnographic atlas of

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and Galicia (1960). He is also co-author, with Celso Ferreira da Cunha, of a major work on Portuguese grammar, the ''Nova Gramática do Português Contemporâneo''.

Biography

Lindley Cintra earned his master's degree in

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from the

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in 1946 with a dissertation on the poet

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, followed by a doctorate in 1951. Besides having a significant role in mentoring researchers and instructors, he established the university's department of

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and Romance Linguistics (''Departamento de Linguística Geral e Românica'') and was instrumental in reorganizing the Centre for Philological Studies (''Centro de Estudos Filológicos''), known since 1976 as the University of Lisbon Linguistics Centre (''Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa''). Lindley Cintra is inextricably associated with the study and teaching of the

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, and his numerous works attest to his intellectual and scientific activity. He was the father of Portuguese film actor

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and Portuguese poet Manuel Cintra.

Distinctions

National orders

Commander of the

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(24 September 1983) * POR Ordem da Instrucao Publica Gra-Cruz BAR

Grand Cross of the

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(28 June 1988)

References

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