Fred Landman | |
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Born | Amsterdam, Netherlands | October 28, 1956
Nationality | Israeli |
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Fred (Alfred) Landman (Hebrew : 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. [1]
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. [2]
Landman is known for his work on progressives, polarity phenomena, groups, and other topics in semantics and pragmatics. [3] He taught at Brown University and Cornell University before moving to Israel.
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