Prof. Dr. Fred Landman

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsGeneral and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
KeywordsBoolean semantics, Plurality, count and mass nouns, Verb aspect and aspectual operators, Semantics of relative clauses, Indefinite and numerical predicates

Current contact address

CountryIsrael
CityTel Aviv
InstitutionTel Aviv University
InstituteDepartment of Linguistics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Gerhard JägerSeminar für Sprachwissenschaft - Allgemeine und Theoretische Sprachwissenschaft, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen
Start of initial sponsorship01/02/2015

Programme(s)

2014Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Fred Landman of theTel Aviv University, Israel Professor Fred Landman is among the international leading scholars in formal semantics and the philosophy of language. He has made seminal contributions to several key areas of modern linguistic theory. In particular, his research on the algebraic structure of the nominal and verbal domain defined that area of our field to a considerable degree. This is also the topic of an ongoing book project that he intends to complete during his stay in Germany. Professor Landman is hosted by Professor Gerhard Jäger at Tübingen University.