Wikipedia's first sentence called it “professor of semantics at tel-aviv university and the author of a number of books about linguistics”. Today it says “dutch-born israeli professor of semantics”.
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Fred Landman ( ; born October 28, 1956) is a professor of semantics at Tel Aviv University and the author of a number of books about linguistics .1Landman is known for his influential work on progressives, polarity phenomena, groups, and other topics in semantics and pragmatics. A native of Holland, Landman taught at Brown University and Cornell University before immigrating to Israel in 1993. He is married to London-born linguist Susan Rothstein . The couple has one daughter and resides in Tel Aviv . Fred Landman's homepage in Tel Aviv University Fred Landman's list of publications on the Tel Aviv University website Fred Landman's biography page on the Tel Aviv University website2
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The opening as it stood in 2005
Fred Landman is a professor of semantics at Tel-Aviv University and the author of a number of books about linguistics . v t e
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Fred Landman ( ) is a professor of semantics at Tel Aviv University and the author of a number of books about linguistics . 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.
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Fred Landman ( ; 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 .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Dutch-born Israeli professor of semantics (b.1956) Fred (Alfred) Landman ( ; 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 .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Dutch-born Israeli professor of semantics (b.1956) 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 .
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professor of semantics at tel-aviv university and the author of a number of books about linguistics
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dutch-born israeli professor of semantics
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