Luís Filipe Lindley Cintra ComL GCIP (5 March 1925 – 18 August 1991) was a prominent figure in Portuguese philology and linguistics.
[1] 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).
[1] He is also co-author, with Celso Ferreira da Cunha, of a major work on Portuguese grammar, the Nova Gramática do Português Contemporâneo.
[1] Lindley Cintra earned his master's degree in Romance philology from the University of Lisbon faculty of letters in 1946 with a dissertation on the poet António Nobre, followed by a doctorate in 1951.
Lindley Cintra is inextricably associated with the study and teaching of the Portuguese language, and his numerous works attest to his intellectual and scientific activity.