Dr. Daniel Werning has an education in Egyptology, General Linguistics and Computer Sciences. The subject of his dissertation was the textual history and the textual grammar of an Egyptian Netherworld Book (Höhlenbuch).

In Topoi I, he researched the semantic space of spatial prepositions in Ancient Egyptian from a typological perspective, comparing it with the corresponding semantic spaces in English, German, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, and – in cooperation with Dr. Ulrike Steinert – in Akkadian (see this feature).

In Topoi II, he is scientific Coordinator of Topoi Lab, Area C (Perception and Representation). In this context, he also executes a research project on the diagrammatic representations of space and time as we find them in the Ancient Egyptian treatments of the imaginary topography of the netherworld from the Egyptian New Kingdom (later 2nd mill. BCE).

Main Research interests: Ancient Egyptian Grammar, Hieroglyphic writing system, Language typology, Construction Grammar, Spatial linguistics; Textual criticism; Egyptian Netherworld Books, Theology of the Egyptian New Kingdom.

Responsibilities

Coordinator Topoi Lab, Area C

Activities

Further Activities

PRESENTATIONS (CONCERNING TOPOI TOPICS) 
2013 Observations on the (Re)productive Textual Tradition of some Netherworld Books, Conference ‘(Re)productive traditions in Ancient Egypt’, Feb 6-8, 2013, Liège (Belgium)
2012 The reception of the New Kingdom Book of Caverns in the 7th and 4th centuries BCE, Conference ‘Thebes in the First Millennium BC’, October 1-4, 2012, South Asasif Conservation Project, Luxor (Egypt)
Zu metonymischen und metaphorischen Verwendungen von Körperteil-Lexemen in der ägyptischen Sprache und Ikonographie [On metonymic an metaphoric uses of body part terms in the Egyptian language and iconography], Workshop ‘The Body – Körperbilder und Körperkonzepte in den alten Kulturen’, 23. August 2012, Topoi, CSG V, Berlin
2011 Körperteilbezeichnungen im Hieroglyphisch-Ägyptischen und ihre metaphorische Verwendung für Raum und Funktion [Body part terms in Ancient Egyptian and their metaphorical use for space and function], Symposium ‘Synthetische Körperauffassungen’, DFG-Projekt “Stabilitas Dei”, 17./18. Juni 2011, TU Darmstadt)
2010 (together with Camilla Di Biase-Dyson:) Ancient Egyptian Spatial Prepositions. Tracking the Interaction of Diachrony and Register (in English), 32nd Annual Int. Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), AG3: Conceptualization of Space, Berlin, Germany
Diagrammatische Bilder im altägyptischen ‘Höhlenbuch’, Meeting Diagrammatik-AG, Research group D-III-1, Topoi, July 13, 2010, FU Berlin
2009 The Semantic Space of Basic Spatial Prepositions in Ancient Egyptian (in English), Workshop on Lexical Semantics in Ancient Egyptian, Liège, Belgium.
2008 (together with Cyril Brosch and Ulrike Steinert:)Körperteilbezeichnungen und Ausdrücke für Grunddimensionen in vorderasiatischen und altorientalischen Sprachen [Body Part Terms and Basic Spatial Terms in Languages of the Near East] (in German),Workshop of the Excellence Cluster Topoi, Research Group C-I-1: The conception of spaces in language, Berlin, Germany.
2008 The Structure of the Underworld According to the Book of Caverns (in English), Xth International Congress of Egyptologists, Rhodes, Greece.

 

READING GROUPS
since 2013 Reading Group C-1: Issues in Cognitive Linguistics (Member)
2008–2010 Reading Group C-I-1: Spaces in Language (Member)