Aina Moll Marquès


Aina Moll Marquès was a Spanish philologist and politician, 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, 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. 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, 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. Since 1993, she was a member of the Institute for Catalan Studies. Marquès died in Palma de Mallorca, February 9, 2019.

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