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Publication details [#1665]
Boyd, Julian and James Peter Thorne. 1969. The semantics of modal verbs. Journal of Linguistics 5 : 57–74. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Journal WWW
Annotation
A semantic analysis of the modal verbs 'will', 'shall', 'should', 'must', 'may', 'can', 'might' and 'could', to which the notion of a speech act is central.