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Winston Churchill’s famous Battle of Britain address, adapted here for a wartime poster, is one example of a remnant of the Verb Second constraint in English, which could hint at the existence of a universal grammar.

“Never was so much owed by so many to so few”: Could phrases like this hold clues about universal grammar?

16 Dec 2015

A new research project examining a linguistic construction called the Verb Second constraint could, academics believe, help to explain how people...

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Still from the film In Transit

The forgotten and the buried

25 Feb 2014

A new film exploring a dark chapter of Norwegian Second World War history will be screened at Churchill College on Wednesday evening (6pm).

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