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Nicolau Dols Salas (6 December 1967, Majorca) is an esperantist and linguist from the Balearic Islands.

Education
Dols graduated in Philosophy and Literature (Catalan Phililogy) at the University of the Balearic Islands, and then went on to earn his master's degree in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, a qualification in East-Asian Studies at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and a doctorate in Catalan Philology at the University of the Balearic Islands (with the European Doctorate label.

Professional career
Dols has led research projects on child phonology, the history of linguistics and translation analysis. His research interests are phonological theory, artificial languages, the history of linguistics and literary translation.

He has been a lecturer at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) since 1990. From1990 to 1992 he worked as a Catalan lecturer at the University of Sheffield. Some years later he taught at the Internacia Kongresa Universitato (IKU) - AIS during the 94thWorld Esperanto Congress (UK) in Bialystok (2009). In the academic year 2014-15 he substituted John Wells as phonetics lecturer (Esperanto and general) on the interlinguistic postgraduate course run by the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. At the Belartaj Konkursoj for literature in Esperanto in 2017 he was awarded first prize for poetry for his poem ''Pasio. Poemo en ses stacioj''.

Since 2014he has been a full member of the Institute of Catalan Studies (the official Catalan academy) as a part of its Department of Philology.

Linguistics

 * Catalan: an Essential Grammar . Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017, with Richard Michael Mansell.
 * La pronunciació llatina entre catalans : estudis fonològics. Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 2004, by Antoni Maria Alcover. Edition and introductory study.
 * Gramàtica del català contemporani. Barcelona: Empúries, 2002.
 * Material lingüístic en català per a exploracions logoaudiomètriques. Majorca: University of the Balearic Islands, 2000. With Ferran Tolosa Cabani and Brauli Montoya Abad. The book comes with three CDs.
 * Catalan. A Comprehensive Grammar. Londres: Routledge, 1999, with Max W. Wheeler and Alan Yates.

Literature

 * Judes i la primavera, by Blai Bonet. Barcelona: Club Editor, 2016. Edition and talk.
 * Poesia completa, by Blai Bonet. Barcelona: Edicions de 1984, 2014. Critical edition with Gabriel del ST Sampol, with a prologue by Margalida Pons. The book presents 70 unpublished poems.
 * Poesia completa (obra publicada), by Guillem Cabrer i Borràs. Majorca: Sa Nostra, Caixa de Balears, 2000. Edition and introductory study.with Gabriel de la ST Sampol.
 * Vent i paper (cinc glossaris de Vilafranca). Vilafranca (Palma de Mallorca). Obra Cultural Balear, Delegació de Vilafranca. Col·lecció "Nou molí", no. 2, 1990 . Kun Antònia M. Andreu i Busquets.

Essays

 * Guillem Cabrer. Barcelona: Associació d’Escriptors en Llengua Catalana, 2006. Biography written in collaboration with Josep M. Llompart, Jaume Santandreu and Gabriel Sabrafín.

Translations

 * L’infant de la nit de Diego Sabiote Ciutat Major: Lleonard Muntaner, 2010. From Spanish to Catalan.
 * Acrollam, by Biel Mesquida. Barcelona: El Aleph, 2009. From Catalan to Spanish.
 * De profundis, vals lent, byJosé Cardoso Pires. Port de Pollença: Edicions del Salobre. Col·lecció Axioms, 3, 2007. From Portuguese to Catalan.
 * Antologia poètica / Antologia poètica, by Blai Bonet. Madrid: Editorial Calambur, 2004, with Margalida Pons and Gabriel de la ST Sampol. A bilingual anthology, originally in Catalan and with a translation into Spanish.
 * Vint poetes de les Balears / Vint poetes de les Balears. Madrid: Calambur, 2002 (second edition, 2007 ), with Pere Rosselló Bover (who selected the poems) and Gabriel de la ST Sampol. Originally in Catalan and with a translation into Spanish.
 * Llibre de l’embolic: compost per Bernardo Soares, comptador adjunt a la ciutat de Lisboa, Fernando Pessoa. Barcelona: Quaderns crema, 2002, with Gabriel de la ST Sampol. From Portuguese to Catalan.
 * Castro: tragèdia, by António Ferreira. Mallorca: Universitat de les Illes Balears, 1990. From Portuguese to Catalan.

Articles

 * "Diversitat, competència i normalització en esperanto: suggeriments i preguntes". Idioma, informació i comunicació, 10, 2015 (63-84).
 * "Fonologia i morfologia i els límits de la llibertat en un llenguatge artificial". Idioma, informació i comunicació, 7, 2012 (37-52).