Research Group C-I-1 was dedicated to language and text and was to investigate linguistically how spaces are constituted within various systems of language on the lexical and grammatical level. The group used a comparative approach to assess how spatiality is represented in ancient languages (Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Egyptian and Coptic, Ancient Greek, and Latin). Basic parameters of linguistic coding and denominating of spatiality, such as terms describing space in general, orientation in space, spatial dimensions, and spatial relations have been analyzed. This has been compared with non-linguistic representations of space.
Dissertations
- Ancient Egyptian Concepts of Space and Spatial Constellations in Pictorial Representations
- Comparative aspects of the expression of local configurations in Hittite
- Formen des Ausdrucks von Dimensionalität im Hurritischen
- Greek motion verbs. A typological-lexical analysis in the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander
- Sahidic-Coptic prepositions in a typological perspective
- Studien zur Semantik und Formenbildung der Nisben im Älteren Ägyptischen
Research Projects
- On the diachrony of spatial terms in Egyptian and Coptic
- Räumliche Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten im Griechischen und Syrischen. Ein lexikalischer Vergleich
- Terms for space and time in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint and the Vulgate