Biography
Fred Landman was born on the 28th of October 1956 in Amsterdam, fourth in a family of five, and grew up in a three-kids-to-a-room appartment in the heart of what is now the Protected City-Scape ‘Van Eesteren’ in Amsterdam's garden-city-neighbourhood Slotermeer.
From 1969 he attended the Cartesius Lyceum, completing the science track at the Gymnasium in 1975.
Between 1975 and 1981 he studied Philosophy of Language and Logic in the Philosophy Department at the University of Amsterdam. From 1981 till 1985 he worked at the same institute on a Ph.D grant, finishing his Ph.D in January of 1986.
After this, he taught for a semester in the Linguistics department at Brown University in Providence, R.I, and held for a year a research position in the Linguistics Department at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, supported by a research grant to Barbara Partee.
From 1987 till 1993 he taught Linguistics and Cognitive Studies at Cornell University in Ithaca N.Y, first as assistant professor, later associate professor.
In December of 1993 he moved to Israel, and since 1994 he has been in the Linguistics Department at Tel Aviv University, first as associate professor, later full professor.
He is married to Susan Rothstein, professor of Linguistics at Bar-Ilan university. The couple has a daughter Dafna, and the family has a cat Ronya. They live in the center of Tel Aviv.