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Winston Churchill鈥檚 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.

鈥淣ever was so much owed by so many to so few鈥: 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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GCSE students discover the wonders of German

18 Jun 2015

鈥淎 human translator will beat any machine any day鈥 proclaims Klaus Fritz, the translator of the Harry Potter books into German.

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