Fred Landman
| Fred Landman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
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
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