Luís Filipe Lindley Cintra

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Luís Filipe Lindley Cintra (born March 5, 1925 in Espariz , Tábua , † August 18, 1991 in Lisbon ) is one of the most famous Portuguese philologists and linguists .

Life

Lindley Cintra studied (until 1942) and obtained his doctorate (1952) in Romance Philology at the Faculdade de Letras of the University of Lisbon , where he also lectured from 1950 until his death: initially until 1960 as an assistant, until 1962 as associate professor, then until on his death as head of the chair for Romance Philology. Among other things, he founded the Department of General and Romance Linguistics ( Departamento de Linguística Geral e Românica ), which was renamed the Center for Linguistics ( Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa ) in 1975 .

On September 24, 1983 he received the award of a Commander of the Order of Freedom ( Ordem da Liberdade ). On June 28, 1988, President Jorge Sampaio awarded him the Grand Cross of the Ordem da Instrução Pública .

Lindley Cintra was married to the teacher Maria Adelaide dos Reis Valle. With this he had three children, one of whom is the now famous actor Luís Miguel Cintra .

The Society for Portuguese Language ( Sociedade de Língua Portuguesa ) has been awarding the Lindley Cintra international linguistic literary prize since his death .

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Lindley Cintra published more than 80 works on Portuguese linguistics in the course of his life, among other things worked in the field of Ibero-Romanesque , the differentiation of literary Portuguese and Castilian of the 14th and 15th centuries. Furthermore, one of his areas of study was the relationship and demarcation between Galician and Portuguese.

Together with Manuel de Paiva Boléo and José G. Herculano de Carvalho, he designed a linguistic-ethnographic atlas of Portugal and Galicia. In 1971 he published a proposal to classify the Galego-Portuguese dialects.

Another well-known work by Lindley Cintras, together with Celso Ferreira da Cunha , was the Nova Gramática do Português Contemporâneo , a new grammar of modern Portuguese.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Luís Felipe Lindley Cintra: Nova proposta de classificação dos dialectos galego-portugueses. (PDF) In: Boletim de Filolia. Centro de Estudos Filológicos, 1971, pp. 81–116 , accessed on March 27, 2014 (Portuguese, archived on the website of the Instituto Camões).


personal data
SURNAME Cintra, Luís Filipe Lindley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese linguist and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Espariz , Tábua
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1991
Place of death Lisbon