{{Short description|Dutch-born Israeli professor of semantics (b.1956)}} {{Infobox philosopher | name = Fred Landman | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1956|10|28}} | birth_place = Amsterdam, Netherlands | institutions = {{unbulleted list|Brown University|Cornell University|Tel Aviv University}} |native_name=פרד לנדמן|native_name_lang=he}} '''Fred (Alfred) Landman''' ({{langx|he|פרד לנדמן}}; 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>[http://www.tau.ac.il/~landman/ Fred Landman's homepage in Tel Aviv University]</ref>
==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.<ref>[http://www.tau.ac.il/~landman/biography.html Fred Landman's biography page on the Tel Aviv University website]</ref> ==Academic career== Landman is known for his work on progressives, polarity phenomena, groups, and other topics in semantics and pragmatics.<ref>[http://www.tau.ac.il/~landman/publications.html 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 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)
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