Luís Lindley Cintra, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Luís Lindley Cintra

Portuguese linguist

Date of Birth: 05-Mar-1925

Place of Birth: Espariz, Coimbra District, Portugal

Date of Death: 18-Aug-1991

Profession: university teacher, philologist, linguist

Nationality: Portugal

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Luís Filipe Lindley Cintra (5 March 1925 in Lisbon – 18 August 1991) was a prominent figure in Portuguese philology and linguistics.
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 Castilian Spanish (1958).
Another special interest was the relationship between Galician and Portuguese, as evinced by his study of the dialects of Madeira (1990) and his plan, together with Manuel de Paiva Boléo and José G.
Herculano de Carvalho, for a linguistic-ethnographic atlas of Portugal 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.