Aina Moll Marquès Explained

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

• 1988, Creu de Sant Jordi 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 Open University of Catalonia
• 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)

Notes and References

1. News: Mor la filòloga menorquina Aina Moll . 3 December 2019 . AraBalears.cat . 10 February 2019 . ca-ES.
2. News: "Hay quien lee el Diccionari como una novela" . 3 December 2019 . www.diariodemallorca.es . 26 May 2012 . es.
3. News: Proponen a Miquel Lladó, Aina Moll, el colegio Montesión y la Comisión Educativa de Son Gotleu para las Medallas de Oro de Palma . https://web.archive.org/web/20130411100336/http://mallorcaconfidencial.com/20121022_95169-proponen-a-miquel-llado-aina-moll-el-colegio-montesion-y-la-comision-educativa-de-son-gotleu-para-las-medallas-de-oro-de-palma.html . dead . 11 April 2013 . 3 December 2019 . Mallorca Confidencial . 11 April 2013.
4. Web site: Aina Moll pide una nueva política lingüística "mucho más exigente y difícilmente atacable" . https://web.archive.org/web/20130330133403/http://www.uoc.edu/portal/es/sala-de-premsa/actualitat/noticies/2012/noticia_068/investidura-honoris-causa-uoc-aina-moll.html . dead . 30 March 2013 . Universitat Oberta de Catalunya . 3 December 2019 . 30 March 2013.