Aina Moll Marquès

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Aina Moll Marquès, 2013

Aina Moll Marquès (1 December 1930 – 9 February 2019)[1] was a Spanish philologist and politician,[2] who served as director of Linguistic Policy of the Generalitat de Catalunya. She was a recipient of Creu de Sant Jordi and the Ramon Llull Award.

Biography

Aina Moll was born in Ciutadella de Menorca on 1 December 1930. She was the eldest daughter of Francesc de Borja Moll, with whom she collaborated in the last two volumes of the Diccionari català-valencià-balear.[3] In 1953, she obtained a degree in Romanesque philology. Later, she continued her studies in Paris, Strasbourg, and Zürich. From 1954 to 1961, she was director of the Raixa Library. She was a member of the Grupo Catalán de Sociolingüística (Catalan Sociolinguistic Group), and was also a member of the first Commission of State Transfers - General Interinsular Council of the Balearic Islands. She was general director of Linguistic Policy of the Generalitat de Catalunya from 1980 to 1988 . Between 1995 and 1996, she was linguistic advisor to the Balearic government.[4] Since 1993, she was a member of the Institute for Catalan Studies. Marquès died in Palma de Mallorca on 9 February 2019.

Awards

Selected works

  • Francesc de B. Moll: la fidelitat tossuda (2004)
  • La nostra llengua (1990)
  • a, bé, cé: sa pastera ja la sé : 2. Ilustró Aina Bonner. Editorial Moll, 48 pp. (1980)
  • Apprenez le Français avec nous: 1. Vol. 2. 2ª edición de Moll, (1973)

References

  1. ^ "Mor la filòloga menorquina Aina Moll". AraBalears.cat (in Catalan). 10 February 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  2. ^ ""Hay quien lee el Diccionari como una novela"". www.diariodemallorca.es (in Spanish). 26 May 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Proponen a Miquel Lladó, Aina Moll, el colegio Montesión y la Comisión Educativa de Son Gotleu para las Medallas de Oro de Palma". Mallorca Confidencial. 11 April 2013. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  4. ^ "Aina Moll pide una nueva política lingüística "mucho más exigente y difícilmente atacable"". Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. 30 March 2013. Archived from the original on 30 March 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2019.