Grigore Brâncuș

Grigore Brâncuș(March 20, 1929,Peștișani,Romania – April 2, 2022,Bucharest) was a Romanian linguist and philologist, Albanologist,member of theRomanian Academy.

Activity

Brâncuș completed his university studies at the Faculty of Philology of theUniversity of Bucharestin 1953, the same University where he would continue his academic activity and became a university teacher at 21 years old, for nearly half a century (1950-1999). For 18 years he was the head of the Department of Romanian Language.Brâncuș completed his PhD in Historical Linguistics andBalkanologyunder the supervision ofAlexandru Rosettiand was known for his research in the interlinguistic relations between Albanian and Romanian.

In 2017, he was awarded theOrder of the Star of Romania,Knight rank.

Selected works

• “B. P. Hasdeu, lingvist și filolog” (1968);
• “Limba română contemporană. Morfologia verbului” (1976)
• “Limba română. Modele de analiză gramaticală” (1996);
• “Gramatica limbii române. Morfologia, în colaborare” (1998);
• „Introducere în istoria limbii române” (2002);
• “Istoria cuvintelor. Unitate de limbă și cultură românească” (2004);
• “Studii de istorie a limbii române” (2007);
• “Expresie populară în ciclul „La Lilieci” de Marin Sorescu” (2014).