Catalan Terminology and Onomastic Office at the UIB

The conselleria for Education and Culture and the Universitat de les Illes Balears have signed an agreement for collaboration that will permit the continuity of the activities of the Catalan Terminology and Onomastic Office of the UIB. The Gabinet de Terminologia carries out directly or in coordination with TERMCAT, the following activities: attend to terminology consultations, pan and coordinate the terminology investigation, supervise the normalisation of Catalan terms, inform on these terms, and method criteria to elaborate dictionaries and vocabularies, and attend to the needs of training of specialists in terminology. The Gabinet d'Onomàstica assumes the function of investigation, information and assessment about Catalan names.

According to the second additional stipulation of the Estatut d'Autonomia of the Balearics, "The official consulting institution for everything connected to the Catalan language will be the Balearic University". As the Statute allows, both the UIB and the Govern think that the maximum norm authority in Catalan is the Institut d'Estudis Catalans and this was reconfirmed by president Antich in his speech in the opening ceremony of the course 1999-2000 of the said institution.

Date of publication: 04/10/1999

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