Fred Landman Explained

Fred Landman
Birth Date:	28 October 1956
Birth Place:	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nationality:	Israeli

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.^[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)

Notes and References

http://www.tau.ac.il/~landman/ Fred Landman's homepage in Tel Aviv University
http://www.tau.ac.il/~landman/biography.html Fred Landman's biography page on the Tel Aviv University website
http://www.tau.ac.il/~landman/publications.html Fred Landman's list of publications on the Tel Aviv University website