Fred (Alfred) Landman ( he, 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.

Biography

Fred Landman was born in Holland. He immigrated to Israel in 1993. He was married to London-born linguist

Susan Rothstein Susan Rothstein (20 August 1958–30 July 2019) was a British-Israeli linguist and Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She was a semanticist who was best known for her work on the semantics of aspect and the mass/c ...

until her death in 2019. The couple had one daughter and resided in Tel Aviv.

Academic career

Landman is known for his work on progressives, polarity phenomena, groups, and other topics in semantics and pragmatics.Fred Landman's list of publications on the Tel Aviv University website
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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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Landman, Fred 1956 births Living people Brown University faculty Cornell University faculty Dutch emigrants to Israel Dutch Jews Linguists from Israel Academic staff of Tel Aviv University Writers from Amsterdam