Fred Landman
Israeli linguist
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| Intro | Israeli linguist | |
| Places | Israel | |
| is | Linguist | |
| Work field | Literature Social science | |
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| Birth | 28 October 1956, Amsterdam | |
| Age | 68 years |
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Biography
Fred Landman (Hebrew: פרד לנדמן; born October 28, 1956) is a professor of semantics at Tel Aviv University and the author of a number of books about linguistics. Prof. Landman is known for his influential work on progressives, polarity phenomena, groups, and other topics in semantics and pragmatics.
A native of Holland, Landman taught at Brown University and Cornell University before immigrating to Israel in 1993. He is married to London-born linguist Susan Rothstein. The couple has one daughter and resides in Tel Aviv.
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)