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 Ramon Llull Award.

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

philology Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...

. 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 ( Catalan 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, Ramon Llull Award 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

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