Fred Landman

Fred Landman
Born (1956-10-28) October 28, 1956
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Residence Tel Aviv, Israel
Nationality Israeli
Institutions Tel Aviv University

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.[1] Prof. Landman is known for his influential work on progressives, polarity phenomena, groups, and other topics in semantics and pragmatics.[2]

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.[3]

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

  1. ↑ Fred Landman's homepage in Tel Aviv University
  2. ↑ Fred Landman's list of publications on the Tel Aviv University website
  3. ↑ Fred Landman's biography page on the Tel Aviv University website


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