E.I. Dibrova as a syntaxist

The article is devoted to anniversary of the outstanding Russian scholar Doctor of Philology, Professor Elena Innokentyevna Dibrova (1928-2014). In the article the evolution of syntactic views of E.I. Dibrova is considered. The article shows that at the beginning of her linguistic way E.I. Dibrova was one of creators of the syntax of text, then she was studied a frazeologization of free word combinations, in the recent years she was engaged in the syntax of speech creativity.