Josep Maria Nadal i Farreras

That same year he received the Jaume Vicens Vives Price for University Quality awarded by the Government of Catalonia.

[3] Soon, however, and beside Modest Prats he became interested in the History of the Catalan Language from a new approach: the study of the linguistic aspects in relation to those social and within the historical context.

In 1982 they published the first volume of the Història de la llengua catalana: dels inicis al segle XV (History of Catalan language: from the beginning until the 15th century) and in 1986 the second, Història de la llengua catalana: el segle XV (History of the Catalan language: the 15th century).

Other three volumes are still in progress and researchers from the Group of History of the Language at the University of Girona, as August Rafanell, Narcís Iglésias, Joan Ferrer Costa or Francesc Feliu, have been incorporated to the project.

These questions have focused several international colloquia held in Girona with the motto Problems and Methods of History of Language[4] that, throughout more than twenty years, have gathered internationally recognized researchers like Alberto Varvaro, Bernard Cerquiglini, Sylvain Auroux, Francesco Bruni, John E. Joseph, José Antonio Pascual, Francesco Sabatini, Maria Leonor Carvalhão-Buescu, Paolo Trovato, Jean-Michel Eloy, Rosanna Sornicola, etc.