Dorothea Hoffmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3638349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorothea Hoffmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorothea |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoffmann |
| SIGNATURE | HOFFMANN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7401-0138 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Geocentric directional systems in Australia
This paper presents the results of a survey of geocentric directional systems across Australia using published and unpublished material as well as fieldwork data, providing the first systematic overview of such systems in Australia. The 116 sampled varieties, spoken across diverse landscapes, exhibit variation within and across languages. Many make use of more than one directional system. This paper sets out to create a systematic typological ove…
Be happy when your stomach is
In this paper I provide a description of the role of body-part terms in expressions of emotion and other semantic extensions in MalakMalak, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of the Daly River area. Body-based expressions denote events, emotions, personality traits, significant places and people and are used to refer to times and number. Particularly central in the language are men ‘stomach’, pundu ‘head’ and tjewurr ‘ear’ associated respectively with b…
Talking about motion in Aboriginal Australia
Traversing the landscape in ancestral myth and everyday life is of central importance across Australia. This paper investigates how lexicalisation patterns in motion descriptions influence the dist
Restrictions on the Usage of Spatial Frames of Reference in Location and Orientation Descriptions
Spatial Frames of Reference (FoR) have been discussed from different angles including cross-linguistic variety, detailed individual language descriptions, considering the impact of landscape and cognition, and regional overviews. Little attention, however, has been paid to their usage patterns. Consequently, this paper analyses a curious restriction on the use of different types of absolute terms. The analysis is based on a previous observation f…
Mapping Worlds
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:This paper presents an analysis of spatial language, in particular, ‘Frames of Reference’ (FoR) utilizing elicitation, stimuli and natural discourse in fieldwork settings. The language in question is MalakMalak, a non-Pama-Nyungan Northern Daly language with eleven identified remaining speakers mainly based in the Daly River Region in Australia
From Space to Time
Reviewed by: From Space to Time: A Cognitive Analysis of the Cora Locative System and Its Temporal Extensions by Eugene H. Casad Dorothea Hoffmann From Space to Time: A Cognitive Analysis of the Cora Locative System and Its Temporal Extensions. Eugene H. Casad. Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg. Human Cognitive Processing 39. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2012. Pp. xxviii + 263. $143.00 (hardcover). The publication of this volume ha…
Restrictions on the Usage of Spatial Frames of Reference in Location and Orientation Descriptions
Spatial Frames of Reference (FoR) have been discussed from different angles including cross-linguistic variety, detailed individual language descriptions, considering the impact of landscape and cognition, and regional overviews. Little attention, however, has been paid to their usage patterns. Consequently, this paper analyses a curious restriction on the use of different types of absolute terms. The analysis is based on a previous observation f…
Mapping Worlds
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:This paper presents an analysis of spatial language, in particular, ‘Frames of Reference’ (FoR) utilizing elicitation, stimuli and natural discourse in fieldwork settings. The language in question is MalakMalak, a non-Pama-Nyungan Northern Daly language with eleven identified remaining speakers mainly based in the Daly River Region in Australia
From Space to Time
Reviewed by: From Space to Time: A Cognitive Analysis of the Cora Locative System and Its Temporal Extensions by Eugene H. Casad Dorothea Hoffmann From Space to Time: A Cognitive Analysis of the Cora Locative System and Its Temporal Extensions. Eugene H. Casad. Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg. Human Cognitive Processing 39. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2012. Pp. xxviii + 263. $143.00 (hardcover). The publication of this volume ha…
Talking about motion in Aboriginal Australia
Traversing the landscape in ancestral myth and everyday life is of central importance across Australia. This paper investigates how lexicalisation patterns in motion descriptions influence the dist
Restrictions on the Usage of Spatial Frames of Reference in Location and Orientation Descriptions
Spatial Frames of Reference (FoR) have been discussed from different angles including cross-linguistic variety, detailed individual language descriptions, considering the impact of landscape and cognition, and regional overviews. Little attention, however, has been paid to their usage patterns. Consequently, this paper analyses a curious restriction on the use of different types of absolute terms. The analysis is based on a previous observation f…
Be happy when your stomach is
In this paper I provide a description of the role of body-part terms in expressions of emotion and other semantic extensions in MalakMalak, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of the Daly River area. Body-based expressions denote events, emotions, personality traits, significant places and people and are used to refer to times and number. Particularly central in the language are men ‘stomach’, pundu ‘head’ and tjewurr ‘ear’ associated respectively with b…
Geocentric directional systems in Australia
This paper presents the results of a survey of geocentric directional systems across Australia using published and unpublished material as well as fieldwork data, providing the first systematic overview of such systems in Australia. The 116 sampled varieties, spoken across diverse landscapes, exhibit variation within and across languages. Many make use of more than one directional system. This paper sets out to create a systematic typological ove…
Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (4 works) · Geographic Information Systems Studies (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Cartography (2 works) · Frame of reference (2 works)