Fred Landman
{{Short description|Dutch-born Israeli professor of semantics (b.1956)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1956|10|28}}
| birth_place = Amsterdam, Netherlands
| nationality = Israeli
| institutions = {{unbulleted list|Brown University|Cornell University|Tel Aviv University}}
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Fred (Alfred) Landman ({{langx|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.[http://www.tau.ac.il/~landman/ Fred Landman's homepage in Tel 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.[http://www.tau.ac.il/~landman/biography.html Fred Landman's biography page on the Tel Aviv University website]
Academic career
Landman is known for his work on progressives, polarity phenomena, groups, and other topics in semantics and pragmatics.[http://www.tau.ac.il/~landman/publications.html Fred Landman's list of publications on the Tel Aviv University website] 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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