 He was already then a great believer in the linguist's thesis, but Fabra had not yet become the unarguable referent of the codification of contemporary Catalan.At that time there was the belief that the said formal codification of the language would be an easily fulfilled objective due to the recent creation in 1907 of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.There was, nevertheless, a certain tension among the different existing experts opinions on what the codification should consist of and who should carry out its leadership.