Fred Landman

Fred Landman (Hebrew: פרד לנדמן‎; born October 28, 1956) is a Dutch-born Israeli professor of semantics. He teaches at Tel Aviv University has written a number of books about linguistics.[1]

Fred Landman
Born (1956-10-28) October 28, 1956
Amsterdam, Netherlands
NationalityIsraeli
InstitutionsTel Aviv University

Biography

Fred Landman was born in Holland. He immigrated to Israel in 1993. He was married to London-born linguist Susan Rothstein until her death in 2019. The couple had one daughter and resided in Tel Aviv.[2]

Academic career

Landman is known for his work on progressives, polarity phenomena, groups, and other topics in semantics and pragmatics.[3] He taught at Brown University and Cornell University before moving to Israel.

Published works
  • Indefinites and the Type of Sets (2004)
  • Events and Plurality: The Jerusalem Lectures (2000)
  • Structures for Semantics (1991)
  • Towards a Theory of Information. The Status of Partial Objects in Semantics (1986)

References
  1. Fred Landman's homepage in Tel Aviv University
  2. Fred Landman's biography page on the Tel Aviv University website
  3. Fred Landman's list of publications on the Tel Aviv University website
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