Fred Landman
Template:Short description Template:Infobox philosopher Fred (Alfred) Landman (Template:Langx; 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.<ref>Fred Landman's homepage in Tel Aviv University</ref>
BiographyEdit
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.<ref>Fred Landman's biography page on the Tel Aviv University website</ref>
Academic careerEdit
Landman is known for his work on progressives, polarity phenomena, groups, and other topics in semantics and pragmatics.<ref>Fred Landman's list of publications on the Tel Aviv University website</ref> He taught at Brown University and Cornell University before moving to Israel.
Published worksEdit
- 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)