About Fred Landman
Born 1956. Fred Landman is an Israeli and Dutch linguist and philosopher.
Fred (Alfred) Landman (; 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 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. 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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Israeli linguist
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Fred Landman was born on 28 October 1956 in Amsterdam.
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