Dr. Daniel Werning

Lehrbereich Ägyptologie und Archäologie Nordostafrikas (HU)

Daniel Werning has an education in Egyptology, General Linguistics and Computer Sciences. In Topoi, he researches 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. He also researches the Ancient Egyptian treatments of the imaginary topography of the netherworld from the Egyptian New Kingdom (later 2nd mill. BCE), as described in the Book of Caverns and other netherworld books.

Main Research interests: Theology of the Egyptian New Kingdom, Netherworld Books, Morpho-syntax of Ancient Egyptian, Script systems, Sign frequencies, Language history, Language typology, Linguistics of space
 

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Organisation / Department

Humboldt-Universität Berlin
Philosophische Fakultät III
Institut für Archäologie
Lehrbereich Ägyptologie und Archäologie Nordostafrikas

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Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Germany

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+49 30 2093-4858

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+49 30 2093-4749
 
 

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"Körperteilbezeichnungen und Ausdrücke für Grunddimensionen in vorderasiatischen und altorientalischen Sprachen "
part of the Workshop Perception and Representation of Space

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Publications

 
In Topoi

[2012]Ancient Egyptian prepositions for the expression of spatial relations and their translations. A typological approach
Werning, Daniel
2012Ort und Bewegung. Linguistische Arbeiten zu Sprachen der Antike (Place and Motion. Linguistic research on Ancient languages)
Kutscher, Silvia. Werning, Daniel
2012The semantic space of static spatial prepositions in hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian. A comparison with nine Indo-European and Afro-Asiatic languages based on the Topological Relations Picture Series
Werning, Daniel
2011Der ‘Kopf des Beines’, der ‘Mund der Arme’ und die ‘Zähne’ des Schöpfers. Zu metonymischen und metaphorischen Verwendungen von Körperteil-Lexemen im Hierogly-phisch Ägyptischen, erscheint
Werning, Daniel
2009Glossing Ancient Egyptian. Suggestions for adapting the Leipzig Glossing Rules
Di Biase-Dyson, Camilla. Kammerzell, Frank. Werning, Daniel
http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~dwernin/published/DiBiase_Kammerzell_Werning-2009-Glossing_Ancient_Egyptian.pdf
 
further Publications

A detailed list can be found at Daniel Werning's website at the Humboldt University: http://www.archaeologie.hu-berlin.de/personal/werning/
 
 

Curriculum Vitae

Employment
2009-2011 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter [Researcher] at the research project Ancient Egyptian Classifiers in Diachronic Perspective (German-Israeli Foundation, Grand No. 988), Berlin
2008-2012 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter [Researcher] at the Excellence Cluster TOPOI, Berlin, Research Group C-I-1 The Conception of Spaces in Language
2003-2009 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter [Member of the academic staff] of theDepartment of Northeast African Archaeology and Cultural Studies atHumboldt University, Berlin

Education
2010 PhD dissertation exam in Egyptology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Georg August University, Göttingen
2004-2006 Associate PhD student in the graduate school Götterbilder Gottesbilder Weltbilder. Polytheismus und Monotheismus in der Welt der Antike at the Faculty of Theology, Georg-August University, Göttingen
2002-2003 Study of Computational Linguistics at Göttingen University
2002 Diploma Magister Artium in Egyptology, Computer Sciences, andGeneral Linguistics
1995-2002 Studies of Egyptology, General and Indo European Linguistics, andComputer Sciences at Georg August University, Göttingen and Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg

Presentations (concerning TOPOI topics)
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
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.

further Presentations

A detailed list can be found at Daniel Werning's website at the Humboldt University: www.archaeologie.hu-berlin.de/personal/werning/