Gabriela Pană Dindelegan

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

Education After completing her secondary education at the Ion Luca Caragiale High School in Bucharest, 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) under the direction of Alexandru Rosetti. 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. 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 ).

Awards and honours 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. In 2009, she was awarded the rank of Knight of the Romanian National Order of Merit. In 2017, she was the recipient of a festschrift entitled ‘Syntax as a way of being’. In 2021, she was elected ordinary member of the Academia Europaea.

Selected publications Pană Dindelegan, Gabriela. 2003. Elemente de gramatică. Dificultăţi, controverse, noi interpretări (Elements of grammar: difficulties, controversies, new interpretations). Bucharest: Humanitas. Pană Dindelegan, Gabriela (ed.). 2013. The Grammar of Romanian. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pană Dindelegan, Gabriela (ed.). 2016. The Syntax of Old Romanian. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 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. Martin Maiden, Adina Dragomirescu, Gabriela Pană Dindelegan, Oana Uță Bărbulescu, and . 2021. The Oxford History of Romanian Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.