Biographie de Henri Adamczewski
Professor Emeritus at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (PARIS III), Henri Adamczewski taught English grammar and theoretical linguistics at the Institut du Monde Anglophone for almost thirty years. He is wellknown for his provocative thesis on the so-called "progressive form" (1976) and for his original views on the syntactic role of the operator DO (1974). These two problems were to lead him progressively to a complete reshuffle of English grammar (" Grammaire Linguistique de l'Anglais " (1982), " Les Clés de la Grammaire Anglaise " (1992)) and to the elaboration of a general linguistic theory founded on the contrastive analysis of some twenty languages. In the last decade H.A. has published "Le Français Déchiffré, Clé du Langage et des Langues" (his vision of French grammar), "Caroline Grammairienne en Herbe ou comment les Enfants inventent leur langue maternelle" (his conception of the acquisition of the mother-tongue), and "Clefs pour Babel ou la Passion des Langues" (where he presents the genesis and development of his linguistic model). H.A. is not only a passionate researcher in linguistics but also a didactician of languages and grammars and an accomplished polyglot: his passion for languages feeds his exploration of the secret inner metalanguage at work in each and every human tongue.