Victor Dudman's Grammar and Semantics

Name: Victor Dudman's Grammar and Semantics
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ISBN: 9781137029249

ISBN-10: 1137029242

ISBN-13: 9781137029249

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jean Curthoys, Victor Dudman

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List price: $74.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 10/29/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 158
Size: 5.69" wide x 10.16" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.770



Preface


Acknowledgements



Kicking Philosophy Upstairs: An Introduction to Vic Dudman's Code-Breaking Grammar



Introduction



grammar


The puzzle


The semantics of the tense inflection: question or (presumed) answer?


Confusions and contradictions in received accounts of tense


The 'spontaneous' conception of meaning


Code-breaking grammar and the puzzle of English tense


The puzzle of English tense restated


The first breakthrough


The practicals: the third important grammatico-semantic category of English


Digression on judgements


Very brief philosophical interlude


Tense in judgements


The solution


Conclusion



philosophy - 'there will still be plenty left'


Frege's 'third realm' and his conception of logic


The primacy of inference


Tensions in Frege's account of the judgement stroke


English tense and the judgement stroke


Material implication


Conclusion


Notes



English Grammar and the English Modals



Preliminaries



Messages



Primary Messages



States and Events



The Fulcrum



The Modals and Their Meanings



Secondary Messages



Proper Messages



Projective Messages



Practical Messages



Judgements As Time Goes By


Notes


Bibliography


Index