Gabriela Pană Dindelegan


Gabriela Pană Dindelegan 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 under the direction of Alexandru Rosetti.

Career and research

After a brief period as lecturer in Romanian at Aix-Marseille University, 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. In addition, from 2002 onwards, she has been affiliated with the of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest as senior researcher, and head of its grammar department since 2005.
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. Her research output includes 13 books and over 120 journal articles. 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 and co-author of The Oxford History of Romanian Morphology.

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. Bucharest: Humanitas.
  • Pană Dindelegan, Gabriela. 2013. The Grammar of Romanian. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Pană Dindelegan, Gabriela. 2016. The Syntax of Old Romanian. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Pană Dindelegan, Gabriela and Dragomirescu, Adina. 2016. Gramatica de bază a limbii române. 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.