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Mila Segarra i Neira (Barcelona, 1st October 1950) is a Catalan philologist and lecturer.

Biography
Mila Segarra i Neira graduated in Hispanic Philology from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 1974. In 1985 she was awarded her PhD from the same institution for her thesis entitled ''Catalan linguistic reform: Vol. 1. Orthography. Vol. 2. Orthography and morphology. Vol. 3. Syntax. Vol. 4: Notes and bibliography''.

She began teaching in the Department of Catalan Philology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 1974-1975, where she became a full professor and taught continuously until her retirement. Her lines of research were standardisation and codification, language and media, and historical linguistics.

She participated in numerous research projects in the 1990s, especially on themes related to language models in the media. These include Els models de llengua i els mitjans de comunicació audiovisuals (ràdio i televisió) en català, 1991-1995 (Language models and audiovisual media (radio and television) in Catalan, 1991-1995); La interrelació dels discursos oral i escrit en l'audiovisual, 1996-1999 (The inter-relationship between oral and written discourses in audiovisual communication, 1996-1999); and Variació i creativitat en la subtitulació, 2000-2003 (Variation and creativity in subtitling, 2000-2003), all of which were directed by Dr Anna M. Torrent. From 2000  to 2004 she participated in a project on the Essai de dictionnaire historique de la langue catalane by J.B. Alart, which was directed by Vicent de Melchor Muñoz.

As a member of the Language and Media research group of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, she helped to draw up the criteria for subtitling colloquial language in television programmes, which was commissioned by Televisió de Catalunya, and to draft the Quality of the Catalan Language Used on TV report, commissioned by the Catalan Audiovisual Council.

She has published several works on the Catalan language, including Història de l'ortografia catalana (History of Catalan orthography) and Història de la normativa catalana (History of Catalan grammar), both published in 1985, as well as biographies and other studies on Pompeu Fabra (1991, 1998).

She has been a full member of the Institute of Catalan Studies since 2005. She was vice-president of that Institute's Philology Section between 2017 and 2018, since when she has acted as its Secretary.

Awards
At the eighth edition of the Premis Pompeu Fabra in 2018, she was recognised for her professional, scientific and civic career.

Specialist publications

 * Història de l'ortografia catalana (Empúries, 1985) ISBN 978-84-7596-057-9
 * Història de la normativa catalana (Enciclopèdia Catalana, for which she received an award for research on the Catalan language from the government of Catalonia in 1985)
 * Gramática y apología de la llengua cathalana, de Josep Pau Ballot (1987; editor and author of introductory study)
 * Pompeu Fabra. L’enginy al servei de la llengua (1998)

Biographies

 * Pompeu Fabra (Empúries, 1991) ISBN 978-84-7596-319-8 ; pocket edition, 2002 ISBN 978-84-7596-915-2.

In collaboration

 * La llengua de TV3 (Empúries, 1997, with M. Bassols, J. A. Castellanos, M. Dolç, N. Faura, J. Martí, D. Paloma, A. Rico, L. Santamaria, E. Teruel and A. M. Torrent)
 * La llengua de Televisió de Catalunya. Materials per a l’anàlisi (Bellaterra, Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1998, with the same authors as above)
 * Llengua oral i llengua escrita a la televisió, by Anna Cros, Mila Segarra and Anna M. Torrent (Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 2000).