Fred Landman
Fred Landman | |
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Born | Amsterdam, Netherlands | October 28, 1956
Nationality | Israeli |
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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)
References[]
Categories:
- 1956 births
- Living people
- Brown University faculty
- Cornell University faculty
- Dutch emigrants to Israel
- Dutch Jews
- Linguists from Israel
- Tel Aviv University faculty
- Writers from Amsterdam