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on semantic issues in around 40 court cases, including murder trials. Among his numerous publications, his most important essays were "The
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is indeed endless, not in the sense of endlessly repetitive, but in the sense of endlessly creative in exactly the way that
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in 1952. He continued his studies in
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Boyd, Julian; Thorne, J. P. (1969), "The Semantics of Modal Verbs",
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for grades 3–9, adopted by schools throughout the United States.
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Hutson, Richard; Banfield, Ann; Paley, Morton D. (2005),
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that assist main verbs in expressing shades of time and
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Boyd, Julian; Boyd, Zelda (1980), "Shall and Will", in
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