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Victor Dudman's Grammar and Semantics

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Kicking Philosophy Upstairs: An Introduction to Vic Dudman’s Code-Breaking Grammar

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction

      • Jean Curthoys, Victor H. Dudman
      Pages 3-82
  3. English Grammar and the English Modals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-84
    2. Messages

      • Jean Curthoys, Victor H. Dudman
      Pages 85-92
    3. Primary Messages

      • Jean Curthoys, Victor H. Dudman
      Pages 93-97
    4. States and Events

      • Jean Curthoys, Victor H. Dudman
      Pages 98-102
    5. The Fulcrum

      • Jean Curthoys, Victor H. Dudman
      Pages 103-109
    6. The Modals and Their Meanings

      • Jean Curthoys, Victor H. Dudman
      Pages 110-113
    7. Secondary Messages

      • Jean Curthoys, Victor H. Dudman
      Pages 114-122
    8. Proper Messages

      • Jean Curthoys, Victor H. Dudman
      Pages 123-129
    9. Projective Messages

      • Jean Curthoys, Victor H. Dudman
      Pages 130-135
    10. Practical Messages

      • Jean Curthoys, Victor H. Dudman
      Pages 136-140
    11. Judgements As Time Goes By

      • Jean Curthoys, Victor H. Dudman
      Pages 141-146
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 147-158

About this book

Victor Dudman's revolutionary English Grammar brings grammar and logic together by conceiving grammar as 'the necessary preliminary to logic'. The focus, for logicians, is the discussion of 'conditionals'; for grammarians it is the concise and accurate explanation of the infamous English modals.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Sydney University, Australia

    Jean Curthoys

  • Macquarie University, Australia

    Victor H. Dudman

About the authors

JEAN CURTHOYS taught Philosophy at Sydney University, Australia, until her retirement.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR V.H. DUDMAN taught Logic for many years at Macquarie University, Australia. In the earlier part of his career he was a Frege scholar and one of his translators. In his later years he worked on his own original English grammar and its application to problems in logic, most notably those concerning conditionals. He died in 2009.

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