Gabriela Pană Dindelegan

Gabriela Pană Dindelegan (born 7 February 1942 in Pitești, Argeș County, Romania)^[1] is a linguist and specialist in the grammar of Romanian.^[2]

After completing her secondary education at the Ion Luca Caragiale High School in Bucharest,^[1][3] Pană Dindelegan graduated in 1964 with a Merit Diploma from the Faculty of Romanian Language and Literature at the University of Bucharest. She then took up a position as lecturer in linguistics at the Faculty of Letters at the same institution, which she held for 26 years, until 1990. In the meantime, she obtained in 1970 a doctorate for a thesis with the title Sintaxa transformațională a grupului verbal în limba română (The transformational syntax of the Romanian verb phrase)^[4][5] under the direction of Alexandru Rosetti.^[1]

After a brief period as lecturer in Romanian at Aix-Marseille University (1991–1992), she returned to Romania as full professor of linguistics, once again at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Bucharest; she held this position until her retirement in 2011.^[2] In addition, from 2002 onwards, she has been affiliated with the Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics [ro] of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest as senior researcher, and head of its grammar department since 2005.^[2][4]

Pană Dindelegan's research has focused on Romanian grammar from the perspective of linguistic typology, in both its synchronic and diachronic contexts. She has also written on the history of Romania.^[2] Her research output includes 13 books and over 120 journal articles.^[6] In 2013, a grammar of Romanian edited and coordinated by Pană Dindelegan was published by Oxford University Press; this is the first major academic grammar of Romanian published in English, and received praise from reviewers for its broad coverage and comparative perspective.^[7] She is also editor and coordinator of The Syntax of Old Romanian (2016) and co-author of The Oxford History of Romanian Morphology (2021, with Martin Maiden, Adina Dragomirescu, Oana Uță Bărbulescu, and Rodica Zafiu [ro]).^[8]

Pană Dindelegan has been the recipient of numerous honours and awards. In 2004, she was elected corresponding member of the Romanian Academy, of which she became full member in 2022.^[1][2][8] In 2009, she was awarded the rank of Knight of the Romanian National Order of Merit.^[2][8] In 2017, she was the recipient of a festschrift entitled ‘Syntax as a way of being’.^[8] In 2021, she was elected ordinary member of the Academia Europaea.^[2]

• Pană Dindelegan, Gabriela. 2003. Elemente de gramatică. Dificultăţi, controverse, noi interpretări (Elements of grammar: difficulties, controversies, new interpretations). Bucharest: Humanitas. ISBN 9738289440
• Pană Dindelegan, Gabriela (ed.). 2013. The Grammar of Romanian. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199644926
• Pană Dindelegan, Gabriela (ed.). 2016. The Syntax of Old Romanian. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198712350
• Pană Dindelegan, Gabriela and Dragomirescu, Adina. 2016. Gramatica de bază a limbii române (Basic grammar of the Romanian language). Second edition. Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic Gold. ISBN 9786067041385
• Martin Maiden, Adina Dragomirescu, Gabriela Pană Dindelegan, Oana Uță Bărbulescu, and Rodica Zafiu [ro]. 2021. The Oxford History of Romanian Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198829485

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