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