THIS BOOK
From time immemorial, language was seen as a fascinating "enigma" by many. It included philosophers, religious men, psychologists, politicians and sometimes even the layman. To answer the big question "what is language?" this book opens the door to the most famous specialsts over a large and long range in time and space. It starts from ancient Indian Panini, to modern structuralists and cognitivists such as Saussure, Bloomfield and Chomsky.

THE AUTHOR
El Mouatamid Ben Rochd was born in Fez (Morocco) 15th Sep. 1950. He graduated from Fez University in 1978, obtained his MA in French Linguistics from York University in 1982,and obtained his PHD in Theoretical Linguistics and the Structure of Arabic from the National University of Ireland in 1990. He has published numerous books and articles, published at home and abroad. He is curerently teaching at CERSHO (Morocco)a course entitled Langues Vivantes et Linguistique Americaine.