Aina Moll Marquès (1 December 1930 - 9 February 2019) was a Spanish philologist and politician, who served as director of Linguistic Policy of the

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. She was a recipient of

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and the

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Biography

Aina Moll was born in

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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''. In 1953, she obtained a degree in Romanesque

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. Later, she continued her studies in

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, and

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. From 1954 to 1961, she was director of the Raixa Library. She was a member of the Grupo Catalán de Sociolingüística (

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Sociolinguistic Group), and was also a member of the first Commission of State Transfers - General Interinsular Council of the

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. She was general director of Linguistic Policy of the

from 1980 to 1988 . Between 1995 and 1996, she was linguistic advisor to the Balearic government. Since 1993, she was a member of the

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. Marquès died in

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on 9 February 2019.

Awards

* 1988,

of the Generalitat of Catalonia * 1997,

of the Government of the Balearic Islands * 2008, Premio Pompeu Fabra * 2012, ''Doctora honoris causa'' at

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* 2015, Medalla de Oro del Consell de Mallorca

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marques, Aina Moll 1930 births 2019 deaths Spanish philologists Women philologists University of Barcelona alumni Sociolinguists Government ministers of Catalonia 20th-century Spanish writers 20th-century Spanish women writers Translators to Catalan Catalan-language writers Members of the Institute for Catalan Studies 20th-century translators Teachers of Catalan