Aina Moll Marquès

Aina Moll Marquès (December 1, 1930 - February 9, 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.

Aina Moll Marquès, 2013

Biography

Aina Moll was born in Ciutadella de Menorca, December 1, 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, February 9, 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. ISBN 8427302932, ISBN 9788427302938 (1980)
  • Apprenez le Français avec nous: 1. Vol. 2. 2ª edición de Moll, ISBN 8427302002, ISBN 9788427302006 (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.
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