Fred Landman

Fred (Alfred) 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]

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)

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