Fred Landman

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Fred Landman
Born (1956-10-28) October 28, 1956 (age 68)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
NationalityIsraeli
Institutions

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]

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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. [2]

Academic career

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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