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

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i professor of

semantics Semantics is the study of linguistic Meaning (philosophy), meaning. It examines what meaning is, how words get their meaning, and how the meaning of a complex expression depends on its parts. Part of this process involves the distinction betwee ...

. He teaches at

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has written a number of books about

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

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

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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
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and

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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