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Publication details [#3092]
Epstein, Judith J. 1982. The grammar of a lie: Its legal implications. In Pietro, Robert J. Di, ed. Linguistics and the professions: Proceedings of the Second Annual Delaware Symposium on Language Studies. Ablex Publishing Corporation. pp. 133–142.
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Article in book
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English
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E. shows that the noun phrase constraints blocking factives from undergoing a variety of transformations is semantically motivated by the speaker's choice to tell the truth, leave in abeyance or block completely the true-false values of propositions.