Victor Dudman's Grammar and Semantics [Hardcover]

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.Preface Acknowledgements PART I: KICKING PHILOSOPHY UPSTAIRS: AN INTRODUCTION TO VIC DUDMAN'S CODE-BREAKING GRAMMAR; J.Curthoys Introduction Section One: Grammar Section Two: Philosophy  'There will still be plenty left' Endnotes PART II: ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND THE ENGLISH MODALS; V.H.Dudman Messages Primary Messages States and Events The Fulcrum The Modals Secondary Messages ProjEctives PrActicals PrOpers Judgements As Time Goes By Bibliography IndexJEAN 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.