Fred Landman

Fred Landman
Born (1956-10-28) 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]

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