Fred Landman is a professor of semantics at Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...

 and the author of a number of books about linguistics

Linguistics

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. Prof. Landman is known for his influential work on progressives, polarity phenomena, groups, and other topics in semantics and pragmatics.

A native of Holland, Landman immigrated to Israel in the 1980s. He is married to London-born linguist Susan Rothstein. The couple has one daughter and resides in Tel Aviv.

Books written

• Events and Plurality: The Jerusalem Lectures
• Indefinites and the Type of Sets
• Structures for Semantics