Fred (Alfred) Landman (; born October 28, 1956) is a Dutch-born Israeli professor emeritus of semantics. He taught at Tel Aviv University and has written a number of books about linguistics.Fred Landman's homepage in Tel Aviv University
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.Fred Landman's biography page on the Tel Aviv University website Academic career Landman is known for his work on progressives, polarity phenomena, groups, and other topics in semantics and pragmatics.Fred Landman's list of publications on the Tel Aviv University website 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) Iceberg Semantics for Mass Nouns and Count Nouns (2020)
Awards and distinctions 2014 Humboldt Research Award
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