Analysing Literary Sumerian

Graham Cunningham is a researcher and part-time lecturer in Sumerian at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. Jarle Ebeling is a researcher at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.

• 1. Introduction 2. Sumerian literature 3. Corpus-based approaches to the study of Sumerian 4. Fear (ni2) and its collocates in the ETCSL corpus Graham Cunningham 5. Preverbal /n/: function and distribution Paul Delnero ( University of Pennsylvania) 6. ak nu-ak (to do or not to do) Jarle Ebeling 7. Bull imagery in Sumerian religious literature Laura Feldt ( Aarhus University) 8. Eme-sal in Old Babylonian literary texts: a corpus-based approach Alhena Gadotti (University of California, Berkeley) 9. The conjugation prefixes in the proverb collection Fumi Karahashi (University of Pennsylvania) 10. Lexical variety and curricular grouping in House F Eleanor Robson (University of Cambridge) 11. The polysemy and productivity of the derivative element nam- in OB literary Sumerian Balint Tanos (L. Eotvos University, Budapest) 12. A quantitative analysis of the Sumerian proverb collections Jon Taylor (British Museum) 13. The multi-word construction igi bar in the Old Babylonian Period Gabor Zolyomi (L. Eotvos University, Budapest) 14. Catalogue of literary compositions in the ETCSL with reference to print publications