Gabriela Pană Dindelegan (born 7 February 1942 in

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, Romania) is a linguist and specialist in the grammar of

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Education

After completing her secondary education at the Ion Luca Caragiale High School in

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, Pană Dindelegan graduated in 1964 with a Merit Diploma from the Faculty of Romanian Language and Literature at the

University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest (UB) () is a public university, public research university in Bucharest, Romania. It was founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princely Academy of Bucharest, P ...

. 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

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Career and research

After a brief period as lecturer in Romanian at

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(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. In addition, from 2002 onwards, she has been affiliated with the of the

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in Bucharest as senior researcher, and head of its grammar department since 2005. Pană Dindelegan's research has focused on

Romanian grammar Standard Romanian (i.e. the '' Daco-Romanian'' language within Eastern Romance) shares largely the same grammar and most of the vocabulary and phonological processes with the other three surviving varieties of Eastern Romance, namely Aromanian, ...

from the perspective of

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, in both its synchronic and diachronic contexts. She has also written on the

history of Romania The Romanian state was formed in 1859 through a personal union of the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence ...

. 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

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; 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

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, 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

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Selected publications

* Pană Dindelegan, Gabriela. 2003. ''Elemente de gramatică. Dificultăţi, controverse, noi interpretări'' (Elements of grammar: difficulties, controversies, new interpretations). Bucharest:

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. * Pană Dindelegan, Gabriela (ed.). 2013. ''The Grammar of Romanian''. Oxford:

. * 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. *

, Adina Dragomirescu, Gabriela Pană Dindelegan, Oana Uță Bărbulescu, and . 2021. ''The Oxford History of Romanian Morphology''. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pană Dindelegan, Gabriela 1942 births Living people People from Pitești Women linguists Ion Luca Caragiale National College (Bucharest) alumni University of Bucharest alumni Academic staff of the University of Bucharest Typologists Linguists of Romanian Members of Academia Europaea Recipients of the National Order of Merit (Romania) Titular members of the Romanian Academy