Fred (Alfred) Landman ( he, פרד לנדמן; born October 28, 1956) is a Dutch-born

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i professor of

semantics Semantics (from grc, σημαντικός ''sēmantikós'', "significant") is the study of reference, meaning, or truth. The term can be used to refer to subfields of several distinct disciplines, including philosophy, linguistics and compu ...

. He teaches at

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

has written a number of books about

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Lingu ...

Biography

Fred Landman was born in Holland. He

immigrated Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, and ...

to Israel in 1993. He was married to London-born linguist

Susan Rothstein Susan Rothstein (20 August 1958–30 July 2019) was a British-Israeli linguist and Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She was a semanticist who was best known for her work on the semantics of aspect and the mass/c ...

until her death in 2019. The couple had one daughter and resided in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

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
/ref> He taught at Brown University and

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to ...

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)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Landman, Fred 1956 births Living people Brown University faculty Cornell University faculty Dutch emigrants to Israel Dutch Jews Linguists from Israel Academic staff of Tel Aviv University Writers from Amsterdam